Essays about: "guidebooks"

Found 4 essays containing the word guidebooks.

1. 1. Translating a guidebook: addressing reader expectation : A small-scale corpus study of direct reader address in a Swedish-English translation

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Carina Sjöberg-Hawke; [2018]
   Keywords : direct reader address; English; first-person; guidebooks; imperatives; interpersonal; personal pronouns; reader expectation; secondary reader; second-person; Swedish; target reader; text conventions; tourist text; translation; translator strategy;

   Abstract : This study analyses the comparative frequency of “direct reader address” in English and Swedish walking guidebook texts. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of specific linguistic features that constitute “direct reader address”, the study aims to highlight the importance of considering reader expectation of a text, i.e. READ MORE

3. 2. The value of travel guidebooks in the digital age

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

   Author : Micol Mieli; [2017]
   Keywords : guidebooks; information and communication technologies ICT ; internet; tourism; value.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Travel guidebooks are both sources of travel information and an object of consumption. In contemporary tourism, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) make information not only available, but abundant and mostly free of charge. READ MORE

4. 3. Translating a Guidebook : - How to Deal with Idioms and Metaphors, Temporal Deictic Expressions and References to Culture-specific Phenomena

   University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Eva Petersson; [2011]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The purpose of the present study was to examine what methods might be employed in translation from English to Swedish of a guidebook on a foreign culture. Vinay and Darbelnet's model for translation strategies, as presented in Comparative Stylistics of French and English. READ MORE

5. 4. Energy Strategies towards Sustainability : a comparative analysis of community energy plans from Sweden and Canada

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Avdelningen för maskinteknik

   Author : Kerly Acosta; Arash Sangari; Jessica Webster; [2008]
   Keywords : Community Energy Planning; Community Energy Systems; Sustainability; Backcasting;

   Abstract : This thesis examines community energy planning in Sweden and Canada with the aim of revealing strategies that move communities towards energy sustainability. Unsustainable energy activities are identified as major threats on both local and global levels. READ MORE