scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Comparative Analysis of Cohesive Devices in Two English Translations of The Analects of Confucius

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-252
Author(s):  
Yuqiu Hou ◽  
◽  
Yu Sun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Analects

Translation and Word-Picture Relationships in Chih-Yuan Chen's Picturebooks

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Shih-Wen Sue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Dual Language ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Young Age ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Chih-Yuan Chen is one of Taiwan's most successful picturebook author–illustrators, having won international recognition for his books, which have been translated into many languages. In Taiwan, several of Chen's works have been repackaged as bilingual books, highlighting the way publishers' marketing strategies are attuned to the desire of Taiwanese parents to help their children learn English from a young age. Even for distinguished creators such as Chen, however, this process is not straightforward. Using a combination of comparative analysis and picturebook theory, this article examines how the relationship between words and pictures has been changed in English translations of two of Chen's picturebooks. Such changes are inconsistent and problematic: bilingual editions contain omissions that raise questions about attitudes toward the function and purpose of dual language books, and the formatting and packaging of bilingual editions privilege verbal text over visual text.

Oral cultures and sexism: A comparative analysis of African and Punjabi folklore

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Lubna Akhlaq Khan ◽  
Muhammad Safeer Awan ◽  
Aadila Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Oral Cultures ◽  
English Translations

The present study embarked with a supposition that there are similarities (traditional, under-developed, agri-based) between the Punjabi and African cultures, so the gender ideology might have similar patterns, which can be verified through the analysis of oral genres of the respective cultures. From Africa, Nigerian (Yoruba) proverbs are selected to be studied in comparison with Punjabi proverbs, while taking insights from Feminist CDA (Lazar 2005). The study has examined how Punjabi and Yoruba proverbs mirror, produce and conserve gendered ideology and patriarchism. Punjabi proverbs are selected through purposive sampling from ‘Our Proverbs’ (Shahbaz 2005) and Yoruba examples (with English translations and interpretations) are elicited from a dictionary of Yoruba proverbs (Owomoyela 2005), as well as articles written about gender by native Yoruba researchers. The investigation has uncovered through thematic content analysis that the portrayal of women in both communities is primarily biased, face-threatening and nullifying. Both languages have presented womenfolk mainly as unreliable, insensible, loquacious, insincere, ungrateful, opportunist, materialistic and troublemaking. Men have been depicted for the most part as aggressive, rational, prevailing, and anxious to take risks. This analysis infers that in asymmetrically organised Punjabi and African (Yoruba) communities, proverbs are deliberately sustaining inequality.

scholarly journals Revisiting (In)visibility: A Reflexive Study of Two English Translations of Iqbal’s “Shikwa” and “Jawab-i-Shikwa”

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Rana Kashif Shakeel ◽  
Maria Farooq Maan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Actual Position ◽  
English Translations

This research is a comparative analysis of two translated versions of Iqbal’s Urdu poems: “Shikwa” and “Jawab-i-Shikwa” to determine the actual position of the two translators in the light of the concepts theorized by Venuti (2008). Venuti mainly focused on the visibility and invisibility of the translator. These theoretical aspects, conjoined with certain peripheral scholastic ideas, have been applied on both translated versions. Through the strategies of (in)visibility, the research also investigates how the boundaries between foreignization and domestication have been blurred, and how the ideologies are embedded in the translation process. The result displays a revised version of (in)visibility.

scholarly journals ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF R. M. RILKE’S POETIC LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Voronevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
World Languages ◽  
English Translations ◽  
English Speaking

This study aims to assess the adequacy of the form of German sonnets when reproduced in English translations. The focus is on interrogative sentences, which, together with the sonnet in the form of a macro-sentence, the shortened verse and enjambment, are the characteristics of the innovative features of Sonnets to Orpheus by R. M. Rilke. The lyrical cycle Sonnets to Orpheus is among the most translated into world languages of Rilke’s poetry works, as well as Duino Elegies. Both professional and amateur poets and translators have been competing to put the Austrian writer’s best poems into English. Here we examine more than twenty English translations of the Sonnets into English, made from 1936 to 2008. The importance of the comparative linguistic-stylistic study of the original and its translations is determined by the continuing interest in Rilke’s works in English-speaking countries and the necessity to understand the principles of reconstructing the features of Rilke’s poetics using the English language. The system of methods used in this work includes: historical and philological analysis, comparative linguistic and stylistic description, as well as comparative analysis of the original and translation in the form that was developed in the works of V. Bryusov (1905), N. Gumilev (1919), M. Lozinsky (1935), E. Etkind (1963), S. Goncharenko (1987). We have found that the innovative nature of German sonnets is not always reflected in English translations. In some translations, American and British translators significantly modified the form of the original: interrogative sentences dominating in XVII and XVIII sonnets of the second part of the lyric cycle were not reproduced in English translations made by G. Good, D. Young, C. Haseloff, N. Mardas Billias and others.

scholarly journals The application example of the comparative analysis in the context of process translation modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 06010
Author(s):  
Vera Shulgan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Aspect ◽  
Mathematical Apparatus ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Modeling Methods ◽  
Research Task ◽  
English Translations

Currently, a specific mathematical apparatus and methods of mathematical modeling are used to evaluate and verify translations. The theory is just developing and in this article we will show the application of modeling methods on a specific example of studying toponyms.The article is devoted to the consideration of the problem of using toponyms with the connotation inherent in biblicalism in translations of poetic works of the Ukrainian writer I. Franko. A comparative analysis of Russian and English translations clearly shows the discrepancies in the choice of translation strategies that were used in relation to these onyms by Russian and English translators. An attempt to evaluate the quantitative aspect of the comparative analysis of the work of I. Franko in the translation by D. Brodsky, V. Azarov, V. Rich, V. Semenin, P. Dyatlov, P. Kandy and B. Melnik was identified as a research task.

Translating maman and papa: A corpus-based survey

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-45
Author(s):  
Sarah Cummins ◽  
Geneviève Parent
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
English Translations

This study examines the translation of the French terms maman and papa by English-language translators from the nineteenth century to the present. Following a comparative analysis of the semantics of the French terms and of their most typical English translations, the authors of the study isolate trends in the translation of these terms through analysis of corpora of French and Quebecois literary texts and their translations.

Two Forest Kings? Literary sources of V. Zhukovsky’s translation of the ballad Erlkönig

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
I. N. Lagutina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
German Original ◽  
English Translations ◽  
New Tradition

The article contains a comparative analysis of early European interpretations of Goethe’s poem Erlkönig and hypothesizes that it was under their influence that Zhukovsky introduced significant innovations in his translation. Already in the first English translations by M. G. Lewis and W. Scott, translators dispense with the naturphilosophical implication of Goethe’s original and enhance its folkloric dimension; the plot is structured according to the pre-romantic and romantic folk legends of evil and many-voiced forest ‘kings.’ The early French versions embark on a new tradition of ‘translating’ the title into the native language, revealing the semiotics of the image and making it more recognizable by a foreign culture. Zhukovsky’s idea of the Forest King is shaped by his contemporary culture; he integrates the German original not only into Russian demonology as described by Russian lexicons of the early 19th c., but also into the set of translation practices already established at the time when he was writing his ballad.

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