Narration and translation

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Bernaerts ◽  
Liesbeth De Bleeker ◽  
July De Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Real ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Way

This opening essay of the special issue on ‘Narration and Translation’ discusses the overlaps between the fields of narratology and translation studies. The fact that translation scholars have merely skimmed the surface of narratological issues relevant for the study of translation can be understood within the context of early developments in translation studies. The first explicit use of narratological models in this discipline has grown out of unease with the extant focus on the macrostructural level of translations. In recent decades, translation scholars have begun to include narrative approaches in their research. Some conceptualize the translator’s discursive presence by referring to a model of narrative communication, or borrow concepts from narratology in order to analyse observed shifts in literary translations. Outside the domain of literary translation studies, scholars have looked into the way translation can refashion narratives in the real world. Conversely, narrative theories have rarely dealt with translational issues, even though they often rely on translations of literary texts. The issue as a whole wants to enhance the dialogue between narratology and translation studies. Each essay explores aspects of the relation between narration and translation.

scholarly journals Introduction: Literary Texts and their Translations as an Object of Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leena Kolehmainen ◽  
Esa Penttilä ◽  
Piet Van Poucke
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Translation Study ◽  
New Information ◽  
Recent Developments

This special issue of the International Journal of Literary Linguistics offers seven state-of-the-art contributions on the current linguistic study of literary translation. Although the articles are based on similar data – literary source texts and their translations – they focus on diverse aspects of literary translation, study a range of linguistic phenomena and utilize different methodologies. In other words, it is an important goal of this special issue to illuminate the current diversity of possible approaches in the linguistic study of translated literary texts within the discipline of translation studies. At the same time, new theoretical and empirical insights are opened to the study of the linguistic phenomena chosen by the authors of the articles and their representation or use in literary texts and translations. The analyzed features range from neologisms to the category of passive and from spoken language features to the representation of speech and multilingualism in writing. Therefore, the articles in this issue are not only relevant for the study of literary translation or translation theory in general, but also for the disciplines of linguistics and literary studies – or most importantly, for the cross-disciplinary co-operation between these three fields of study.The common theme that all these articles share is how the translation process shapes, transfers and changes the linguistic properties of literary texts as compared to their sources texts, other translations or non-translated literary texts in the same language and how this question can be approached in research. All articles provide new information about the forces that direct and affect translators’ textual choices and the previously formulated hypotheses about the functioning of such forces. The articles illustrate how translators may perform differently from authors and how  translators’ and authors’ norms may diverge at different times and in different cultures. The question of how translation affects the linguistic properties of literary translations is approached from the viewpoint of previously proposed claims or hypotheses about translation. In the following, we will introduce these viewpoints for readers who are not familiar with the recent developments in translation studies. At the same time, we will shortly present the articles in this issue.

scholarly journals Style in Literary Translation: A Practical Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Ali Almanna ◽  
Mohammed Farghal
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Real World ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Minimum Loss ◽  
The Real ◽  
Authentic Data ◽  
Language Text

This paper explores a stylistic approach to translating literary texts from Arabic into English and vice versa. It is held that in order to be in a position to render literary texts effectively and accurately, one needs to: (1) analyze and describe varieties of language, (2) identify and discern all important aesthetic aspects of text in order to interpret and appreciate texts properly, (3) activate processes and experiences of reading along with one’s intuitive responses to the text, and (4) activate all aspects of knowledge stored in one’s mind on language, text-typological demands, generic conventions, sociological roles of participants in the real world and in text, cultural environment and so on. Through the analysis of authentic data, it argues that by adopting a comprehensive stylistic approach, translators, as special text readers, can easily derive a better understanding and appreciation of texts, in particular literary texts. The data analysis demonstrates that literary translators, in addition to possessing other types of competences, need to develop first an analytical and evaluating competence that enables them to analyze and appreciate stylistic features, and second transferring/translating competence that enables them to prioritize the competing elements with a minimum loss. 

Kajian Literatur : Etnografi Digital Sebagai Cara Baru Dalam Pencarian Data Dalam Proses Perencanaan Arsitektur

AKSEN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Andrey Caesar Effendi ◽  
LMF Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Real ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Architectural Programming ◽  
Programming Process ◽  
The Way

The use of digital technology today can be said to be inseparable in our daily lives. Digital technology isslowly changing the way we communicate with others and the environment. Socialization that is usuallyface-to-face in the real world now can be done to not having to meet face-to-face in cyberspace. Thisliterature review aims to see a change in the way of obtaining data that is growing, with the use of digitaltechnology in ethnographic methods. The method used in this paper is to use descriptive qualitativeresearch methods by analyzing the existing literature. So it can be concluded that the use of digitalethnography in the architectural programming process can be a new way of searching for data at thearchitectural programming stage.

scholarly journals The Great Debate: General Ability and Specific Abilities in the Prediction of Important Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison Kell ◽  
Jonas Lang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Real ◽  
General Ability ◽  
Great Debate ◽  
Relative Value

The relative value of specific versus general cognitive abilities for the prediction of practical outcomes has been debated since the inception of modern intelligence theorizing and testing. This editorial introduces a special issue dedicated to exploring this ongoing “great debate”. It provides an overview of the debate, explains the motivation for the special issue and two types of submissions solicited, and briefly illustrates how differing conceptualizations of cognitive abilities demand different analytic strategies for predicting criteria, and that these different strategies can yield conflicting findings about the real-world importance of general versus specific abilities.

spontaneously invented a name for the creature derived from the most prominent features of its anatomy: kamdopardalis [the normal Greek word for ‘giraffe*]. (10.27.1-4) It is worth spending a little time analysing what is going on in this passage. The first point to note is that an essential piece of information, the creature’s name, is not divulged until the last possible moment, after the description is completed. The information contained in the description itself is not imparted directly by the narrator to the reader. Instead it is chan­ nelled through the perceptions of the onlooking crowd. They have never seen a giraffe before, and the withholding of its name from the reader re-enacts their inability to put a word to what they see. From their point of view the creature is novel and alien: this is conveyed partly by the naive wonderment of the description, and partly by their attempts to control the new phenomenon by fitting it into familiar categories. Hence the comparisons with leopards, camels, lions, swans, ostriches, eyeliner and ships. Eventually they assert conceptual mastery over visual experience by coining a new word to name the animal, derived from the naively observed fea­ tures of its anatomy. However, their neologism is given in Greek (kamdopardalis), although elsewhere Heliodoros is scrupulously naturalistic in observing that Ethiopians speak Ethiopian. The reader is thus made to watch the giraffe from, as it were, inside the skull of a member of the Ethiopian crowd. The narration does not objectively describe what they saw but subjectively re­ enacts their ignorance, their perceptions and processes of thought. This mode of presentation, involving the suppression of an omniscient narrator in direct communication with the reader, has the effect that the reader is made to engage with the material with the same immediacy as the fictional audience within the frame of the story: it becomes, in imagination, as real for him as it is for them. But there is a double game going on, since the reader, as a real person in the real world, differs from the fictional audience inside the novel precisely in that he does know what a giraffe is. This assumption is implicit in the way the description is structured. If Heliodoros* primary aim had been to describe a giraffe for the benefit of an ignorant reader, he would surely have begun with the animal’s name, not withheld it. So for the reader the encounter

2014 ◽  
pp. 318-318
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mode Of Presentation ◽  
Real Person ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Corpus Methodologies in Literary Translation Studies: An Analysis of Speech Verbs in Four Spanish Translations of Hard Times

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ruano
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Original Novel ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

In this article, speech verbs in Dickens’sHard Times(1854) and their translation into Spanish are analyzed. Apart from their basic function of introducing speech, these verbs can also contribute to characterization. The regular occurrence of a particular speech verb to report the direct speech of a particular character helps to create a fictional personality. Given the important role they may play, the rendering of such verbs in four Spanish versions of this novel is assessed. To do so, a corpus-based methodology has been employed. A concordancing software was used to retrieve speech verbs from the original novel, allowing their close analysis in context. Then, using an aligned parallel corpus containing the four versions, a comparison was carried out to see how they have been rendered. Evidence is provided that none of the four translations entirely preserves the characterizing value of the verbs, which may affect the way readers form impressions of characters in their minds. The use of this corpus metholodogy is thus seen to contribute to the field of literary translation studies.

Introduction to Section B of the special issue: languages and software in robotics

Robotica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-131
Author(s):  
J. A. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Symplectic Geometry ◽  
Rehabilitation Robotics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Real ◽  
Distributed Manipulation ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Symbolic Modelling

Section B of the special issue contains four papers dealing with diverse topics, viz. rehabilitation robotics applications, a software package for an automatic symbolic modelling of robots, the use of symplectic geometry, and the treatment of the Distributed Manipulation Environment method. This completes the wide review of various techniques and theoretical approaches aiming at solving the difficult problems of conventional robotics in the real world.

scholarly journals Using Humorous Sitcom Clips In Teaching Federal Income Taxes (Funny Things Can Happen On The Way To Filing And Paying Income Taxes)

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wayne Cecil
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
The Real ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Tax Practice ◽  
The Way

This article shares the motivation, process, and outcomes of using humorous scenes from television comedies to teach the real world of tax practice. The article advances the literature by reviewing the use of video clips in a previously unexplored discipline, discussing the process of identifying and selecting appropriate clips, and introducing and reviewing fair use guidelines for copyrighted video materials in the classroom.

Library Awareness and Textual Intimacy in Contemporary Jewish Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Way

By the term “library awareness,” I refer to the way in which the library is understood in a given text and, extrapolating from the text, in a given period or place.1 It can also signify the various answers to a question about the meaning of a library: in other words, the awareness of the principal and practical meanings of libraries, the perception of them as an aggregate, and the understanding that an aggregate of books is equivalent to an aggregate of knowledge and is even connected to other perceptions of holism. This awareness is connected, naturally, to the real-world existence of libraries and collections of books, but the two are not identical. In Jewish culture (as well as in other cultures), library awareness is a diverse and fluid concept that changes with time and place. Differentiating stages or types of library awareness can contribute to an understanding of the historical, cultural, and intellectual trends of various periods. In this essay I will concentrate on the last two centuries, while touching as well on previous stages of Jewish culture....

Special Issue on Integrated Knowledge on Innovative Robot Mechanisms

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 845-845
Author(s):  
Naoyuki Takesue ◽  
Koichi Koganezawa ◽  
Kenjiro Tadakuma
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Real World ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Computer Processing ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Mechanical Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Real ◽  
Integrated Knowledge

A robot is a system integrated with many elements such as actuators, sensors, computers, and mechanical components. Currently, progress in the field of artificial intelligence induced by tremendous improvements in computer processing capabilities has enabled robots to behave in a more sophisticated manner, which is drawing considerable attention. On the other hand, the mechanism that directly produces robot movements and mechanical work sometimes brings out some competencies that cannot be provided solely by computer control that relies on sensor feedback. This special issue on “Integrated Knowledge on Innovative Robot Mechanisms” aims to introduce a knowledge system for robot mechanisms that bring forth useful and innovative functions and values. The editors hope that the studies discussed in this special issue will help in the realization and further improvement of the mechanical functions of robots in the real world.

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