scholarly journals Cognitive and Semiotic Model of Translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3Sup1) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Ruslana Presner ◽  
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Nataliia Tsolyk ◽  
Oleksandra Vanivska ◽  
Ivan Bakhov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Communicative Act ◽  
Language Text

The paper aims to give a comprehensive cognitive and semiotic analysis of translation strategies implied in the translation of the film “Darkest Hour”. Regarding a film as a communicative process mediated by certain semiotic features makes it possible to analyze the semiotic character of film discourse in translation. Thus, it was decided that translation is not just a speech-oriented process but a communicative act taking place within a definite semiotic space in a cross-cultural perspective. The semiotic model of cinematic discourse has a complicated structure and is analyzed based on semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic criteria. The choice of the semiotic system primarily depends on the communicative situation and its recipients. As the semiotic system of the film “Darkest Hour” is both socioculturally and situationally conditioned, the translator reconstructed the sense of the source language text by implying the translation transformations that assured the accuracy and adequacy of its translation into the target language text.

scholarly journals Paraphrase Strategy in Translating Indonesian Novel into English

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Target Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Language Text

This research article discusses one of the translation strategies namely paraphrase. The method used is a mixed method of descriptive-comparative method with both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The data source is the translation of a novel, Tarian Bumi written in Indonesian language as the source language text and ‘Earth Dance’ in English as the target language text. The data used for this research are taken from the first part of the novel. The background of this research is the phenomenon showing that from all the sentences in the first part of the novel, more than 50% are being paraphrased. To identify what linguistic units are paraphrased, what kinds of paraphrase involved and which paraphrase is used more than others are the objectives of this research. The results show that the paraphrases involve all linguistic units ranging from word, phrase, clause, to sentence. The paraphrase can be used individually or in a combination consisting of two paraphrases and among the four kinds of paraphrase, the explicative paraphrase is used more than others either it is used individually or in combination.

Cross-cultural literary translation strategies within a Maltese bilingual context

Babel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-168
Author(s):  
Kenneth Grima
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Strategic Processes ◽  
Useful Flow ◽  
Culture Bias

Abstract The process of literary translation includes the source culture-specific elements that constitute an integral part of the source text. This paper aims to identify and analyse various translation strategic processes that could be adopted in translating cultural factors within the parameters of a Maltese bilingual, but not necessarily bicultural, context. Each of the suggested strategic procedures is presented in useful flow-chart formats, varying from source language/source culture to target language/target culture bias approach in order to keep cultural losses to a minimum whilst maximising cultural gains and, therefore, to make the transformation of the source text into the target text successful. Such flow-charts are aimed to provide the literary translator with a rapid means of achieving an adequate and satisfying suggested solution for a quality cross-cultural transposition of the cultural elements encountered within a bilingual context. In certain instances, it is also suggested that some strategies are used concurrently with others. To achieve this aim, an extended practical translation exercise by the author himself is used. This paper also helps to strengthen further both the level of research in narrative translation studies in general, and the research done in Maltese narrative literary translation from a cultural point of view.

A simple traffic-light semiotic model for tagmemic theory

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (225) ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Vern Poythress
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Views ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Field View

AbstractThe complexity and flexibility of tagmemic theory, as a semiotic theory developed by Kenneth L. Pike, can be better understood by examining how it applies to a simple semiotic system like traffic lights. We can then compare the result with how it functions in analyzing a piece of natural language. Tagmemic theory introduces three observer viewpoints – the particle view, the wave view, and the field view. Each view generates a suite of questions to answer. Any one of the views results in a “complete” description of traffic lights, from which the information about the other views can be inferred. And yet each view is distinct in texture from the others, and the existence of such multiple views – each with a claim to emic integrity and each serving as a perspective on the whole – has to be accounted for in a robust semiotic approach. The same phenomena occur when we apply the three views to the analysis of meaning in natural language. The chief illustration is to analyze the meaning of the word dog in multiple ways. The multi-dimensional potential for semiotic analysis highlights the limitations of Aristotelian logic and symbolic logic, both of which simplify for the sake of rigor.

Use of vocabulary translation strategies: A semantic translation analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Rietveld
Keyword(s):  
Text Messages ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Semantic Translation ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Text Context ◽  
Language Text

Translation is the process of transferring source language text messages into the target language. The practical objective of the message transfer process is to assist the reader of the target language text in understanding the message intended by the original author of the source language text. There are many types of translations available, but semantic translation is considered the type of translation that is the most accurate in conveying meaning. Semantic translation tries to divert as closely as possible the semantic and syntactic structures of the target language with the exact same contextual meaning in the source language text, as well as word meanings and sentence meanings from the perspective of the source text context. Semantic translation is found to be the most flexible and flexible translation.

How to manage patients in English–Spanish translation

Target ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Study ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Language Text

This paper describes the application of a target-oriented contrastive analysis model to an extensive corpus of medical research articles. The analysis focuses on the Methods section and a subset of lexical items representing persons viewed as the object of clinical study. Quantitative contrastive analysis revealed statistically significant differences between the translations from English and the independently created Spanish texts in all the thematic, syntactic and lexical variables analysed. Qualitative contextual analysis showed that four basic criteria for thematic position and a series of associated translation strategies are capable of correcting the excesses and deficits observed, thus producing a more natural and acceptable target language text.

scholarly journals Internationalization vs. Localization: The Translation of Videogame Advertising

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel de Pedro Ricoy
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cultural Dissemination

Abstract A study of the translation of advertising material cannot be restricted to the analysis of language transfer, as the effectiveness of advertisements is contingent upon the successful linkage of (audio)visual elements, media of dissemination and written text. This paper analyses the cross-cultural dissemination of advertisements for the video-game industry, examining commercial arguments from a linguistic and cultural perspective. It is posited here that, in spite of their apparent disparity, the disciplines of translation theory and marketing interface to a large extent in the context of cross-cultural advertising. In the global marketplace, multinationals are faced with the choice to either internationalize or localize the promotion of their products, an issue that mirrors the long-standing debate on naturalising (or domesticating) vs. foreignizing translation strategies. The conclusion reached is that the cross-cultural dissemination of advertising material is best served by adopting an instrumental approach to translation, as described by Nord (1989).

scholarly journals Cross-cultural Language Learning: Interpretative Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Anzhelika Solodka ◽  
Oksana Filatova ◽  
Oksana Hinkevych ◽  
Oleksandr Spanatiy
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Context Analysis

Conceptualization of foreign language teaching as a cross-cultural interaction means engaging learners in various cultural mediations. Language use becomes a form of interpretative architecture of a target language. Understanding language use from a discursive perspective develops meta-pragmatic awareness and interpretative capacities of learners. The study answers the question of how to design the architecture of context analysis. This research aims to determine the effective ways of interpretative engagement of learners with aspects of pragmatics in the Ukrainian university setting. The study investigates how the process of interaction shapes the engagement of learners in practices of noticing, reflection, and comparison of cross-cultural situations. The data came from a case study on cross-cultural language learning within the second semester, 2021. The study analyzes the audio-recording of the classes, researcher notes, and post-course interviews of 24 participants. This research used a method of the content analysis. The study of the results, based on six categories (narrative analysis, discourse analysis, semiotic analysis, interpretative analyses, conversation analysis, and critical analysis), showed that the learners started to consider the nature of their cross-cultural mediation. The research proved that through such an interpretative engagement, students become engaged into working with languages and cultures. The study presents some recommendations for language teachers to create a meaning-making process from multiple perspectives.

scholarly journals Cross-cultural Language Learning: Interpretative Engagement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anzhelika Solodka ◽  
Oksana Filatova ◽  
Oksana Hinkevych ◽  
Oleksandr Spanatiy
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Context Analysis

Conceptualization of foreign language teaching as a cross-cultural interaction means engaging learners in various cultural mediations. Language use becomes a form of interpretative architecture of a target language. Understanding language use from a discursive perspective develops meta-pragmatic awareness and interpretative capacities of learners. The study answers the question of how to design the architecture of context analysis. This research aims to determine the effective ways of interpretative engagement of learners with aspects of pragmatics in the Ukrainian university setting. The study investigates how the process of interaction shapes the engagement of learners in practices of noticing, reflection, and comparison of cross-cultural situations. The data came from a case study on cross-cultural language learning within the second semester, 2021. The study analyzes the audio-recording of the classes, researcher notes, and post-course interviews of 24 participants. This research used a method of the content analysis. The study of the results, based on six categories (narrative analysis, discourse analysis, semiotic analysis, interpretative analyses, conversation analysis, and critical analysis), showed that the learners started to consider the nature of their cross-cultural mediation. The research proved that through such an interpretative engagement, students become engaged into working with languages and cultures. The study presents some recommendations for language teachers to create a meaning-making process from multiple perspectives.

scholarly journals Cultural Perspective in The Translation of Slang Expressions in Subtitle Die Hard 3

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Sukmaningrum ◽  
Ajeng Setyorini
Keyword(s):  
Target Language ◽  
Common Word ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Cultural Transfer ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Expressive Meaning ◽  
And Function

The paper focuses upon the problem of trans-cultural transfer in subtitling of Die Hard 3 movie dialogues. Language and culture may thus be seen as being closely related and both aspects must be considered for translation. The methodology of the research involves analysis of the type and function of slang expressions and their translating strategies viewed from cultural perspective. The data reveal that in translation process the translator used the effect of softening. The consideration of the target reader is taken account in choosing the translation strategies. As the result, the authors found 7 specific slang expressions that were translated using loan translation. Meanwhile, the total number of general slang expressions from the mivie was 90. There are six strategies applied by the translator to translate the slang expressions that belong to general slang type. They are; (1) Translating General Slang using common word or phrase of similar expressive meaning, (2) Translating General Slang using Shift or Translating General Slang using Transposition, (3) Translating General Slang using Ommision, (4) Translating General Slang using Cultural Equivalent, (5) Translating General Slang using Swearing Words in Target Language, and (6) Translating General Slang using Synonymy.

AN ANALYSIS ON THE TRANSLATION OF REPETITIVE INDONESIAN ADJECTIVE INTO ENGLISH

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Arsiwela
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Language Text

The function of translation is to convey meaning or message from source language text into target language text. However, in translating, the translator will face some problems, for example is the translation of repetitive Indonesian adjectives. This study investigates how repetitive Indonesian adjectives are translated into English. Indonesian has repetitive adjectives such as tinggi-tinggi, cantik-cantik, and jauh-jauh and the English translation of the repetition is not tall-tall, beautiful-beautiful, and far-far respectively. The method applied in this study is qualitative descriptive method. The data will be categorized and classified and then analyzed in accordance with the principle, translation strategies, and relevant theories. The result of the study shows that literal translation strategy and transposition strategy are the most frequent strategy used by the translator. Some of them are translated in the different form grammatically but the meaning of the message in source language is well maintained into the target language. The principle of translation employed by the translator to translate Indonesian repetitive adjective is meaning.

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