Essays about: "covert translation"

Found 2 essays containing the words covert translation.

1. 1. What essentially might be almost certain about climate change : The translation of hedges in popular science

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sofia Hamberg; [2022]
   Keywords : covert translation; hedging; lexical hedges; modal strength; modification; omission; popular science; retained translation; strategic hedges;

   Abstract : This study investigates how hedges are used in an American popular science text about the effects of climate change and to what extent their translation to Swedish is retained or modified concerning modal strength. Furthermore, the study seeks to explain the reasons behind translation choices, which affect the level of modal strength and or linguistics alterations in the target text. READ MORE

3. 2. Crime with Loss of Context : How the Translation Changed the Implied Reader of Åsa Larsson’s The Savage Altar: Innocence Will Be Sacrificed

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Katarina Lindve; [2008]
   Keywords : Authorial audience; implied reader; culture-specific context; overt and covert translation; cultural filter; intertextuality;

   Abstract : The implied reader of a novel is the person that the author writes for. In the case of Åsa Larsson’s Swedish detective novel Solstorm, the implied reader is familiar with Swedish politics, history, and geography but also with biblical references and Swedish customs. READ MORE