Language is a tool of communication for making a relationship between nations and between people from the same or different countries. There are two kinds of meanings in the language which are: literal and figurative. The literal meaning is the direct meaning of words. The figurative meaning, however, does not give the direct meaning of the given words. In order to know the meaning, one has to understand the context. In the case of figurative meaning, the meaning of every single word in an expression
noticed the important role of context and then they make classification of the different definition based on different standards. According to different linguists, the context is the environment where the verbal communication takes place, that is to say, context is the survival of verbal language domain. Translation is an extremely complicated topic. Doing the good translation needs to determine the meaning of words, a process called understanding, which is the core task in translation. Context is the
This paper discusses the impact of translation in all walks of life. An individual feels an urge in learning different languages for some specific purposes. The need and importance of translation is felt increasing day by day. Besides enlightening it proved to awaken India to become conscious of their existence and knit India together as a nation throughout history. The best example of it can be found when Akbar set up Maktabkhana or translation bureau, which encouraged translators of Sanskrit, Turkish
Translation is seen nowadays as an important human action and the translator asa mediator between cultures. That is why many scholars have asked how or if culture can be eventually translated into another language. Translation is always placed at the core of the intercultural aspects, so that the study of the translation goes a long with the cultural studies. Consequently, cultural aspects of translation have emerged into a series of theories about cultural translation, about its very existence in
A Study of Gladys Yang’s Translation of The Border Town from the Perspective of Aesthetics In order to enhance communication with all countries of the world and enhance the influence of Chinese culture, Chinese culture "going out" has become an issue which is urgently concerned by society. And Chinese literary translation plays an important role in it. Based on the linguistic features and expressive features of Chinese, there is a natural link between translation and aesthetics in China. Since the
CHAPTER I Background and Purpose 1.1. Introduction For a long time, translation has been a controversial issue on whether it can be an instructional tool in language learning classrooms or not. From the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been several arguments against using translation as a language teaching tool. Translation as a language learning activity was considered as being unsuitable within the context of foreign language learning (Brown, 2002). It was also criticized by Newson
2.3.1 The translation variation theory and tourism translation In the article “The Translation Variation Theory-oriented Tourism Translation Strategies from Chinese to English”, Zhang Yange (2007:67) points out that the tourism translation from Chinese to English is not only one kind of cultural translation, but also a kind of trans-cultural communicating activity. Due to the great cultural differences between Eastern countries and Western countries, especially the different characteristics between
one country to another has grown significantly thanks to the facility of cross border mobility . This attitude has also led to more people from different cultural and ethnic contexts in the same context because globalization and the advances in communication and technology have reduced trade barriers and increased interaction among people and for these things many multi-cultural teams are arise. Multicultural team means a team with members from more than one culture and this event is what is happening
Language is the most important marvel in the world; it is a system of communication consisting of word, sounds and grammar and also is a system of communication used by human and animal. There are several hundred million people learning it at any one time and it is a very nature tool for human and animal to communicate with each other. Human beings communicate in a rich and sophisticated way that is sound and movement, speech and gesture to communicate too. A sound, a word, speech, language
“Language, the most powerful communication tool, cannot always convey the right meaning. It has been claimed also that often the problem is not of the colonial Other who cannot speak, but of the Western interlocutor who cannot listen, who comes always with a cultural and often stereotyped baggage” (Plaias, 2013) Introduction In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Half of the Yellow Sun (2006), which fluctuates between two ambiguous eras: the early and late 1960’s, Adichie tells her story by alternating