Itamar Even-Zohar, anchored in some ideas of Russian formalism, especially by Jurij Tynjanov, sought to provide with the polysystems theory a theory that could describe the process of translation, as well as understanding changes within literary, language, and cultural systems. The fundamental concept in the descriptive studies and introduced by Tynjanov, the idea of polysystems, “Its purpose is to make explicit the conception of a system as dynamic and heterogeneous in opposition to the synchronistic approach. ” (EVEN-ZOHAR, 1990: 12). This concept is developed in order to better comprehend literary genres and traditions in a broader way, without the individual focus of each work (EVEN-ZOHAR, 1990: 13). Even Zohar resumes the concept of system …show more content…
Gideon Toury argues that this approach does not conceive the translation process as being a prescriptive process, imposing 'correct ' or 'wrong ' laws or forms of translation. In an inverse process, it seeks to analyze and describe the translations according to a target context and the cultural system in which the translation will be read. In the author 's words, “[...] Translations be regarded as facts of the culture that would host them, with the concomitant assumption that whatever their function and systemic status, these are constituted within the target culture and reflect its own systemic constellation” (TOURY, 2012: …show more content…
Since translation is essentially the result of a selection of communication systems strategies, it is the researcher 's duty to study the priorities - the dominant norms and models - that determine translation strategies, considering norms as the laws that guide textual construction, and the models the steps proposed in the scheme of the authors. (LAMBERT; VAN GORP, 1985: 46).
The method proposed by Lambert and Van Gorp gives the researcher an approach that goes beyond the foreign text and the translated text, referring to the whole cultural context that surrounds both productions, especially the target culture. The translation process, as well as the result of the translation and reception, can be studied from different angles, both at a macro and micro-level, focusing on linguistic standards, literary codes, moral, religious and non-literary standards. (LAMBERT; VAN GORP, 1985:
Eric Harris Rough Draft Friday Paper 10/29/2015 Zinn vs Schweikart and Allen In A People’s History of the United States (1980) by Howard Zinn, he makes the argument that the US Constitution was written to protect the selfish economic interests of the wealthy. Zinn has plenty of logical information to back his statement up, but in A Patriot’s History of the United States (2004) by Schweikart and Allen opposes the idea. They argue that the constitution was written to promote selfless ideas of unity and political truth like it should have. Schweikart and Allen feel that true patriots are ignored due to too much emphasis on political correctness.
With older references, it is safe to say that this piece is more modern than the information Wood has compiled in his essay. Wood joined Brown University in 1969, and
Jamie Isaacson Mr. Zontek History 136 Participation #0 Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States states how Zinn’s biases influenced his relationship with American history. He references his youth as a dock worker, and his military service, to explain how he couldn’t remain objective regarding his choices of what parts of history to teach, thereby displaying bias. He states that because the US was founded and is ran by self-interested white men with a desire to create a strong central government that could wage war on the whims of an individual, American history is a study of classism and arrogance. Zinn also claims that American history is “a white man’s history” because there is no mention of Black people or Native Americans beyond
While interpreters and translators can work in any field, they frequently come across a sea of doubts when deciding what word to use, therefore, building a glossary on specialized terms can make our jobs more convenient. Even though this is a time-consuming task, at the end this will pay off. As my area of interest is interpreting in immigration settings, I have chosen to build a glossary on immigration based on the book from the series Current Controversies Immigration, by Debra A. Miller, published by Cynthia Sanner. Although immigration rates have decreased over the years, there is still a huge communication barrier between LEP (Limited English Proficiency) people and immigration staff, thus demanding the need for interpreters and translators.
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“I had nearly outgrown the shame and the guilt and the sense of unworthiness. This visit, this pilgrimage, made comprehensible, finally, the traces that remained and would always remain, like a needle.” The text Farewell To Manzanar, written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, illustrates Jeanne’s experience while being placed in an internment camp. Jeanne’s family was faced with multiple challenges through the process of being evacuated from their home to living in an internment camp. Throughout the text, Jeanne also explains how her life was difficult compared to how she believed non-Japanese lived in America.
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In his essay Bakhtin provides an analysis of the relationship between individual utterances and the ideologically charged forces that affect them, he writes: “The dialogic interaction of a word among other words (of all kinds and degrees of otherness) creates new and significant artistic potential in discourse, creates the potential for a distinctive art of prose, which has found its fullest and deepest expression in the novel.” (275) i.e. there are dialogic relations between the narrator and the writer, the author and the character, the story and other stories, culture and text and society and text. A novel is in fact characterized by heteroglossiawhere many voices (writer, character, society) are mixed which gives originality to the text.
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