Using Machine Translation in Literary Translation
The technological innovations and information revolution have helped the development of
language industries and the enlargement of multilingualism. The use of machine translation
has experienced unprecedented growth with many different new techniques and demands.
However, the main objective of researchers in an Internet-dominated environment has been the
fast and quick development of translation systems that are both accurate and effective. Translation plays an important role in increasing understanding and awareness among different cultures and nations. In particular literary translations help these different cultures
understanding each other. The increasing
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4- It does not present the rhyme scheme.
5- The absence of fluency that leads to foreignization.
Table 2 comparative between human translation and Google translation:
In this example, Google translation is very close to the human translation because it consists of
straight meaning and easy words.
Original text Google translation Human translation
We have no time to stand and stare ليس لدينا وقت الوقوف والتحديق وليس لدينا أي وقت إلى الوقوف و التحديق
Google translation has difficulties to translate some types of texts, although; it works better
on straightforward texts like technical texts or informative web sites more than literary texts.
There are some characteristics cannot be achieved by the machine translation in the
literary texts:
1-Accuracy of rendering in the sense, emotion and feeling that everything in a text should be include or taken into account in translation.
2-Mastery of the two languages the SL and the TL, regarding the basics of their grammars( word order, sentence and types of clause, tenses) , vocabulary (collocation, combination).
3-Comptence in tone: in literary translation concerns on terms of an attitude of irony, humor or
Modesty Lorick World literature 203 "Justice for the barn" As a child we tend to look up to someone much older than us. We watch everything they do from their actions, how they interact and speak with other people. Someone a child would usually look up to is an older sibling, mother or father. We look for this person to lead us down the right path and to have our best interest at heart. To encourage, provide and make sure that whatever decision we may make is the right decision.
Even though people have no direct connection with one another, they could find similarities and differences within each other by observing individual’s life. In the memoir, The Red-Headed Hawaiian by Chris McKinney and Rudy Puana, a life of Rudy has been described from his childhood to his adulthood. The journey of Rudy Puana starts with cultural identity and ends in cultural identity, in which Hawaiian and haole culture became obstacles as well as solutions to his problem. Throughout Rudy’s educational period, he experienced mistreatment, hardship, and recoveries from the undesirable conditions. His life is especially different from other life as well as from my life.
In the story Camp Harmony, by Monica Stone, irony is used by the author to convey a message. For example, the word itself means “agreement; accord; harmonious relations”, according to Dictionary.com. The author, however, describes how inharmonious the camp is, “What was I doing behind a fence, like a criminal?If there were accusations to be made, why hadn’t I been given a fair trial?” (Stone, 323). This quote shows how at the time, the author was so confused as to why she and her family was at the camp when they had done nothing to deserve imprisonment.
7. Cisneros does not represent dialect, slangs, and accents for poetic and comprehension purposes. The deletion of dialect, slangs, and accents contribute to its purpose to communicate the story in a more poetic manner. The themes and symbols use in the poetic writing are more significant when there is no dialect that could interfere with the figurative language. The structure of the novel could potentially be confusing to the reader, so the use of familiar language and style makes it easier to understand and perhaps more relatable.
These are: (1) When a judge view a case as unworthy when the persons involved are not proficient in English language.
Literary Analysis The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson is the tale of Hayley Kincain, a seventeen year old girl, and her incredibly unstable life with Andy, her father. Andy is a war veteran who suffers from Post-traumatic stress disorder, and is constantly assaulted by horrific memories of the past. Hayley’s mother perished in a car accident soon after Hayley was born, while Andy was still deployed in Iraq. Hayley was raised by her grandmother Barbara until Hayley was seven, at which point Barbara died and Andy returned home to care for Hayley.
Christopher Mills - Thomas Pryor Context for any novel is critical because it sets the scene and tone for the reader, it creates a mindset and a perception and as the reader engages more with the story they are able to visualize in their own mind what is taking place on the pages. With the book, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee in 1960, it is through the eyes of a child even though it is written by the adult Harper Lee discussing the differences between the black and white races, the treatment towards black people in the nineteen thirties. The issue of prejudice is prevalent in the book. Although it is highlighted throughout, it is very evident in the discussion that Scout has with her father once Scout had started school, Scout
The most reliable document to understand the Middle Passage is document c which was the account of a slave ship doctor named Alexander Falconbridge in 1788 of the Slave Trade of Coast of Africa. This document is reliable because it is a primary source which is “an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study”. Besides being a primary source, he was neither a slave owner or a slave, so there wouldn't be much bias towards a group. In his account, he writes about the harsh conditions he witnessed such as slaves being cuffed and held so closely to each other that they could only lie on their sides, buckets for feces, buckets for water, and tubs for food. These conditions lead to diseases such as flux to be spread easily.
Throughout the reading, Anzaldúa constantly switched between the Spanish and English language. I believe the switching or languages has a decoding effect on people. The author wants her audience to be more engaged. If the reader doesn’t understand the language, they are more likely to either research or use the surrounding text to understand what Anzaldúa is talking
“The Veldt”, by Ray Bradbury, is a short story that contains a series of events where the children, Wendy and Peter, are constantly being spoiled with the use of technology. Their parents, George and Lydia, bought a technology filled house, which contains devices that do almost everything for them, including a nursery for the children. The nursery’s walls transform and display different environments, of which reflect one’s thoughts. The children, however, are caught using violent content inside the nursery so their parents threaten to take away all technology, including the nursery. The children become upset, throw temper tantrums, and end up locking their parents in the nursery, left there to die with hungry lions.
The New and Lonesome Normal Joyce Oates’s “Hi Howya Doin” depicts the violence that has captured and encapsulated today’s culture. The un-deemed murder of an innocent jogger in the end of this story validates and justifies the fear that so many individuals feel. In Oates’s short story, “Hi Howya Doin”, the protagonist is depicted as a “Good-looking husky guy six-foot-four in the late twenties or early thirties, Caucasian male…..solid built as a fire hydrant, carries himself like an athlete, or an ex-athlete” (214). Through the police report, giving the description of the protagonist, Oates foretells his surprising fate at the beginning of the story which in turn, creates tension and suspense for the reader as the protagonist goes about what
Prompt #6 The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a story of the Joad family and their travels west. The setting of Steinbeck 's novel is the Great Depression in Oklahoma. During this time, a long period of drought and high winds affected large parts of the Midwest, including much of Oklahoma, creating what was called the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck uses different elements and narrative styles to endow his novel with a powerful sense of realism and authenticity.
Staying Strong or Giving In? Language is an integral part of every distinctive culture. It represents a way of life and a way of communication among those that share similar traditions, values, and heritage. The Irish people have consistently been faced with foreign cultures encroaching on their land and threatening not only their culture but also the Gaelic language itself.
To start, John Steinbeck used many different techniques to change the mood which are his word choice and his descriptive language. In fact, in the beginning he starts off on how the living conditions are for for Kino and Juana. He describes that Kino ad Juana live in a poor condition or a hut like home but he is still happy with what he has. Steinbeck is very descriptive on what the scorpions exact moves are and how Kino reacts to seeing his baby getting stung.
In fact, translation itself as it takes place in the real life has a direct relationship with communicative purposes. As Duff (1989:6) maintains, "translation happens everywhere, all the time, so why not in the classroom? " Confusion is at times made between “translation” and L1. Although these two terms are often seen as synonymous they are not the same thing as they involve different skills and strategies as also acknowledged by González-Davies –Scott-Tennent (2009) (Leonardi, 2011). These terms are not interchangeable