Language and culture in minor media 
text types

2012 ◽  
pp. 145-176
Author(s):  
Viviana Gaballo
Keyword(s):  
Language And Culture ◽  
Text Types

scholarly journals A Look Inside the Translators’ Workspace: Discussions Around a Large Nursing Text Translation

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Ineke Hendrika Martine Crezee ◽  
Hanneke Johanna Petronella Lustig
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Time Zone ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Health Related

Abstract: This article looks back on a large nursing textbook translation carried out by two translators in partnership. Time zone differences meant the translators worked with detailed discussion worksheets. Challenges involved in the translation of this 912-page text (the corpus) included Language and Culture Specific Challenges (LCSCs), which included SL and TL stylistic preferences, syntactical challenges, differences in ‘semantic coverage’, commissioner expectations and the need to align the Target Text with previous TL translations of standardized nursing terminologies.A review of the literature on the translation of text types, skopos and CSIs, is followed by a look inside the translators’ workspace. An examination of translation challenges found that Aixelá’s taxonomy of approaches to the translation of Culture Specific Items (CSIs) was often relevant to the translation of LCSCs. The findings of the analysis of challenges and approaches can be easily applied to translation of health-related texts in public service settings.Resumen: El presente artículo revisa la traducción de un libro texto de enfermería realizada por dos traductores  en colaboración. La diferencia horaria entre ellos llevó a los traductores a utilizar plantillas detalladas de discusión. Algunos de los desafíos presentados en la traducción de este texto de 912 páginas (el corpus) fueron los “retos específicos del idioma y la cultura” (LCSCs por sus siglas en inglés), así como las diferencias estilísticas propias de la lengua fuente y la lengua meta, las diferencias semánticas y sintácticas, las expectativas del cliente y la necesidad de mantener consistencia entre el texto meta y las traducciones previas de terminología en el área de la enfermería.Hemos realizado una mirada retrospectiva al ámbito de trabajo del traductor junto a una revisión bibliográfica acerca de la traducción de diferentes tipos de textos, la teoría de eskopo y los aspectos propios de cada cultura (CSIs). Mediante el análisis de los desafíos de la traducción hemos demostrado que, con frecuencia, en la traducción de “retos específicos del idioma y la cultura” es relevante la taxonomía de las técnicas de traducción de CSIs planteada por Aixelá. Por último, los resultados del análisis de dichos retos y enfoques pueden ser fácilmente aplicados a la traducción de textos relativos al área de la salud en el marco de los servicios públicos. 

Advances in Semiotics of Translation: A Model of Text Analysis and Comparison for Literary Translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Alize Can Rençberler
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Semantic Awareness

Unlike other text types, literary texts offer signs with semantic diversity and several reading modes to the reader through different genres. Translation of literary texts puts them through cultural circulation across the world. Translators, incurring the responsibility of the original texts, pondering on the ways to overcome the pitfalls, and bringing the translated text to readers’ service, undertake a challenge to succeed in the initiative for this circulation. In the book’s foreword, Sündüz Öztürk Kasar draws attention to this point and clarifies that the act of translation admittedly alters the direction of the text it deals with, evolving it into another world of language and culture. Translation also reveals the meaning of the original text that has not been realized in the target culture’s linguistic and socio-cultural context but conceivably expecting to be discovered between the lines. According to Öztürk Kasar, that is the reason why translators should be more sensitive to the signs than anybody else is and have linguistic and semantic awareness.

Effects of Language and Culture on the DAS

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Aguera Verderosa
Keyword(s):  
Language And Culture

Comics: Language and culture affect action in depictions

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Tversky ◽  
Tracy Chow
Keyword(s):  
Language And Culture

Teaching Korean Language and Culture Using the Myth of Dangun

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-312
Author(s):  
Eun-Ja Lee
Keyword(s):  
Korean Language ◽  
Language And Culture

Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Population Displacement ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Hebrew

In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for Israel. Finding it impossible to continue writing in Arabic in Israel, many Iraqi Jewish novelists faced the literary challenge of switching to Hebrew. Focusing on the literary works of the writers Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael and Eli Amir, this book examines their use of their native Iraqi Arabic in their Hebrew works. It examines the influence of Arabic language and culture and explores questions of language, place and belonging from the perspective of sociolinguistics and multilingualism. In addition, the book applies stylistics as a framework to investigate the range of linguistic phenomena that can be found in these exophonic texts, such as code-switching, borrowing, language and translation strategies. This new stylistic framework for analysing exophonic texts offers a future model for the study of other languages. The social and political implications of this dilemma, as it finds expression in creative writing, are also manifold. In an age of mass migration and population displacement, the conflicted loyalties explored in this book through the prism of Arabic and Hebrew are relevant in a range of linguistic contexts.

Writing Time in Metaphors

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Do So

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

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