Reasoning patterns of undergraduate theses in translation studies: An intercultural rhetoric study

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 68-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mianjun Xu ◽  
Chenchen Huang ◽  
Xiaoye You
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Fang Li ◽  
Yingqin Liu

This study explores the effects of teaching EFL students to use an outline in their English essays. The researchers maintain that using outlines can raise students’ awareness of different audience expectations embedded in the rhetoric of the target language (English) and culture and can improve their English academic writing. The study was based on a four-week long case study at a university in Xi’an, China, in which 24 Chinese EFL students at the College of Translation Studies participated. A discourse analysis was conducted by comparing the Chinese EFL students’ English essays produced at the beginning of the study with those produced at the end of the study after learning and practicing outlining for writing the English essays. Email inquiries were used for understanding the participants’ viewpoints on learning how to write English essay outlines. The findings reveal that teaching EFL students to use outlining in their English essays is an effective way to help them improve their essay writing. Not only can it enhance the students’ understanding about using the English thesis statements, but it can also help improve the use of related, logical, and specific detailed examples to support the main ideas in their essays. The email inquiries also revealed that the students believe that outline learning helped them to understand the differences between Chinese and English essay writing. The implications of the study for intercultural rhetoric are also discussed.


ALQALAM ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Ilzamudin Ma'mur
Keyword(s):  

Penerjemahan, kendati secara akdemis mempakan fenomena bam-bam ini saja, Sejatinya merupakan tindak komunikasi yang telah dilakukan orang dan berlangsung selama berbadad. Peminatnya meliputi tidak saja para linguis dan sastrawan tetapi juga para pakar dalam bidang yang semakin menjauh seperti antroplogi, psikologi hingga matematika. Kenyataanya penerjemah telah memainkan peran krusialnya di sepanjang peradaban umat manusia mulai dari masa klasik, abad pertengahaan, hingga zaman modern sekarang. Selain itu, dari sudut kajian teoretis, peredebatan apakah penerjemahan itu ilmu, teori, seni, keterampilan atau selera masih terus bergulir sebagaimana direfleksikan oleh beragamnya judul buka tentang penerjemahan. Namun demikian, perkembangan terahir nampaknya, istilah translation studies lebih banyak digunakan para teoretisi dan praktisi penerjemahan, suatu istilah payung, karena mencakup penerjemahan dan penjurumbahasaan, yang diperkenalkan pertama kali oleh James Straton Holmes.Kata Kunci: Penerjemahan, penerjemah, Sejarah penerjemahan


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny ◽  
Ilmari Ivaska

Empirical Translation Studies have recently extended the scope of research to other forms of constrained and mediated communication, including bilingual communication, editing, and intralingual translation. Despite the diversity of factors accounted for so far, this new strand of research is yet to take the leap into intermodal comparisons. In this paper we look at Lexical Diversity (LD), which under different guises, has been studied both within Translation Studies (TS) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). LD refers to the rate of word repetition, and vocabulary size and depth, and previous research indicates that translated and non-native language tends to be less lexically diverse. There is, however, no study that would investigate both varieties within a unified methodological framework. The study reported here looks at LD in spoken and written modes of constrained and non-constrained language. In a two-step analysis involving Exploratory Factor Analysis and linear mixed-effects regression models we find interpretations to be least lexically diverse and written non-constrained texts to be most diverse. Speeches delivered impromptu are less diverse than those read out loud and the non-constrained texts are more sensitive to such delivery-related differences than the constrained ones.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-358
Author(s):  
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Yuanyi Ma
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