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  2. J. C. Catford - Wikipedia

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    Catford could identify where people were from exclusively through their speech. His expertise – which included formal phonetics , the aerodynamic and physiological production of speech, phonetic peculiarities in speech, and an astounding ability to reproduce words, and even speeches, backwards – led him to be invited to the University of ...

  3. Skopos theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory first appeared in an article published by linguist Hans Josef Vermeer in the German Journal Lebende Sprachen, 1978. [2]As a realisation of James Holmes’ map of Translation Studies (1972), [3] [4] skopos theory is the core of the four approaches of German functionalist translation theory [5] that emerged around the late twentieth century.

  4. Cultural translation - Wikipedia

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    Catford rationalised this theory in his book Linguistic Theory of Translation: "Cultural untranslatability arises when a situational feature, functionally relevant for the source language text, is completely absent from the culture of which the TL is a part. For instance, the names of some institutions, clothes, foods and abstract concepts ...

  5. Translation studies - Wikipedia

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    Some international conferences on translation and children’s literature were organized: in 2004 in Brussels there was “Children’s Literature in Translation: Challenges and Strategies”; in 2005 in London, “No Child is an Island: The Case of Children’s Books in Translation” (IBBY- International Board on Books for Young People); in ...

  6. File:Future of Translation exploration.pdf - Wikipedia

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  7. Shifting (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    In syntax, shifting occurs when two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions in a sense to obtain non-canonical order. The most widely acknowledged type of shifting is heavy NP shift, [1] but shifting involving a heavy NP is just one manifestation of the shifting mechanism.

  8. Untranslatability - Wikipedia

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    Full or half sibling. In Arabic, "brother" is often translated into أخ ( Akh ). However, whilst this word may describe a brother who shares either one or both parents, there is a separate word - شقيق ( Shaqīq ) - to describe a brother with whom one shares both parents.

  9. The Interpretive Theory of Translation - Wikipedia

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    The Interpretive Theory of Translation [1] (ITT) is a concept from the field of Translation Studies.It was established in the 1970s by Danica Seleskovitch, a French translation scholar and former Head of the Paris School of Interpreters and Translators (Ecole Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT), Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle).