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This chapter highlights translated texts in a volume that would otherwise only discuss literature written originally in English. I argue that translations should also be seen as contributions to Indian English, both the literary corpus and the language itself. In doing so, I frame translation itself as part and parcel of the understanding and forging of an Indian literature. To illustrate these points, I compare Tagore's "Gora", Ananthamurthy's "Samskara", and Omprakash Valmiki's "Joothan" to talk about issues of language, caste, and the form of the novel. I detail how notions of caste as...
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This chapter discusses the research approach and results of the Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP). Our work in Iceland’s Mosfell Valley (Mosfellsdalur) is documenting human habitation and environmental change over the course of the Old Icelandic Free State from the ninth to the thirteenth century. During the first centuries of Iceland’s settlement, the glaciated and once wooded Mosfell Valley was home to an extended family of chieftains, the Mosfellsdælingar (the people or men of Mosfell Valley). Among their numbers, the Mosfellsdælingar counted settlers, chieftains, warriors, farmers,...
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Outline of the evolution from process studies to translation process research, and from there to cognitive translation studies
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This contribution comprehensively analyses how Targum Jonathan Malachi (TgJ Ma) renders the Hebrew Text (HT) of the book of Malachi. The study shows that this Targum constitutes a mix of technical and exegetical translation techniques in a generally periphrastic rendering to make it theologically acceptable. It furthermore demonstrates how obscure ambiguous passages and idiomatic expressions are remodelled by contemporizing interpolations. Added prepositions bring clarity to imagery and scanty syntactical expressions. Anthropomorphism is rendered indirect to express obvious reverence before...
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This essay aims to examine the theological concept of the Empyrean in Convivio, through discuss datas and postpone by the end any evaluations about open issues relating to terms, typical of the philosophical vocabulary, such as Prima mente and Protonoè. Then the focus shifts to an important tessera for the medieval culture and Dante: the annotation of Bernard Silvestre at De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martian Capella, basic material that has given us the philosophical knowledge of antiquity combining with theological speculation.
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Abstract This paper aims at touching upon effects of technological developments on the translation teaching in the 21st century. These technological developments are usually in the area of Information Technology (IT) contributing to the fast growth of the computer industry. The popularization of the computer, especially in the early 1980s changed actually the way translator follows in the translation process through the appearence of useful translator tools including translation memories, terminology databases, translation management programs, electronic corpora and so forth. These...
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