Essays about: "sentence-final"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word sentence-final.

  1. 1. Japanese women’s language as spoken by foreign women in Elle Japon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Sara Kopelman; [2020]
    Keywords : Japanese language; gender; sociolinguistics; translation; foreigners; final particles; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : An interesting phenomenon seen in Japanese translations of foreign women’s speech is the tendency to make them speak using women’s language. Women’s language in Japanese refers to a set of characteristics, consisting mainly of sentence final forms such as wa or kashira, that form a speech norm for women. READ MORE

  3. 2. A study of bai and tai : A sociolinguistic variation study of the sentence-final particles bai and tai used in the Fukuoka dialect.

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Gabriel Levander; [2020]
    Keywords : Japan; dialect; particles;

    Abstract : This paper investigated the difference of usage of the sentence-final particles of bai and tai that are used in the Fukuoka dialect from a sociolinguistic variation study perspective. Social factors such as age, gender and social network were gathered through a survey, in which the results were analyzed, and patterns identified. READ MORE

  4. 3. The long and the short of it : the translation of non-finite adverbial clauses and ly-adverbials

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anna Görman; [2020]
    Keywords : Adverbial placement; explicitation; ly-adverbials; non-finite supplementive clauses; translation studies; transposition.;

    Abstract : This study investigates the translation of non-finite supplementive clauses and one-word adverbials with a suffix of -ly in an English non-fiction text of academic prose and its Swedish target text. The results show that the non-finite supplementive clauses often are translated into either a new main clause, a coordinated clause or a subordinate clause, where the latter in a majority of cases involves the use of explicitation. READ MORE

  5. 4. On the morphosyntax of main and subordinate clauses in Xokleng

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : David Gert; [2019]
    Keywords : subordination; word order; Xokleng; nominalization; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This is a thesis on the Gê language of Xokleng and its means of subordination. This work is based on previous publication on the Xokleng language (Urban 1985, Gakran 2005, Gakran 2015). In this highly isolation language with almost no inflection, a large set of grammatical and lexical monosyllabic particles are used to express TAM(E). READ MORE

  6. 5. TRANSLATION OF TIME: A translation analysis of Chrono Trigger

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Filip Antonijevic; [2018-08-08]
    Keywords : japanska; translation; localization; male female speech; Chrono Trigger; skopos; foreignization; domestication; video games;

    Abstract : The purpose or aim of this study is to analyze and discuss how the personality of the character Frog was changed during the translation and localization of the game Chrono Trigger, with focus on how the use of male speech and sentencefinal particles were translated. The theoretical framework for analyzing of how Frog’s dialogue was changed during localization will be skopos theory, Venuti’s concept of foreignization and domestication and video game localization. READ MORE