The study provides an innovative insight into the engagement of translation in remodeling Chinese “root-seeking” literature into world literature. By selecting Han Shaogong’s A Dictionary of Maqiao and its English translation completed by Julia Lovell …
Metaphors represent one of the major problems a translator may encounter. A number of studies have been carried out on metaphor translation in literary texts; however, in political discourse studies are scarce and still limited. Therefore, the main obj…
The present paper aims at shedding some illuminating light on the formidable effect The Epic of Gilgamesh (2100-1200 BC) still leaves on modern and contemporary poets, apart from a host of scholars, historians, archeologists and researchers. As creativ…
The first Chinese translation of The Great Gatsby was published on the mainland of China in 1983, and it was the translation of Wu Ningkun. The context of the times at that time, the early period after the end of the Cultural Revolution and the beginni…
Three questions are currently confronting the fast-developing sociological approach to translation studies, namely, “How must it be named?”, “How could it be defined?” and “How should its model of research be evaluated?”, which is involving the subject…
This essay discusses some ancient and medieval examples from Arabic culture, dealing with the task of translating genres that did not exist in the target language. By examining these historical instances, this paper demonstrates that only by adapting i…
Referential cohesion in African languages is a largely neglected area of study. Given the foregoing, this study, theoretically anchored on Descriptive Translation Studies and Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) seminal model, explores referential cohesion in t…
This article is concerned with the study of urban spaces, such as cities, suburbs and modes of transportation, and their changing social and political dimensions in Cold War America. To do so, the essay will try to understand how cities and suburbs, po…
The complicated nature of literature is reflected in the complicated nature of literary style. If literature and literary style are difficult concepts to define with precision, their translation from one language to another should be expected to be eit…
This article explores how the institutional and ideological practices of news media can impact on translating news articles by focusing on the ideological representations in media discourse. It tests the hypothesis that hidden ideologies in news texts …