Essays about: "tourist text"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the words tourist text.

1. 6. A Visit to the Gentle Island : How to retain the pragmatic functions of a tourist guide in translation

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Therese Allard; [2014]
   Keywords : pragmatic text functions; culture; tourist guide;

   Abstract : This study discusses how the pragmatic text functions of the Prince Edward Island Visitor’s Guide can be retained in translation from English into Swedish. Katharina Reiss’ model of texttypes and their different functions have been used to identify the functions of the source text, and in order to investigate the possibilities of retaining these functions in the target text, the discussion is tied to text features where the pragmatic text functions are displayed. READ MORE

3. 7. More than words : Different strategies to remedy culturally prompted translation difficulties

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Markus Björklund; [2013]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This paper sets out to investigate how different kinds of adaption strategies can work in synergy to overcome culturally prompted translation difficulties. The strategies used were analysed in the translation of a text from a tourist guide containing references to local phenomena. READ MORE

4. 8. It's Nice to be Nice: Tourism Discourse and Post Colonial Identities in the Gambia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Fredrika Uggla; [2012]
   Keywords : Stereotypes; Post colonialism; The Gambia; Tourism; Discourse; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : From a post colonial point of view there is reason to question the increasing streams of tourists from North to South, i.e. from former colonialist countries to former colonies. READ MORE

5. 9. A Critical Review on “Image”-based Tourism : A Case of Slow Traveler

   University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

   Author : Golrokh Mosayebi; [2011]
   Keywords : Image; Media; Meaning; Slowness; Slow Tourism; experience;

   Abstract : This essay is based on a critical review of dominant form of tourism industry that causes a system of meaning, making as consequences of reproducing of ‘image’ in media. Images of promised destinations bombard us everywhere, on billboards, small advertisement bar on social networks websites, on magazine and even in movies and TV series in designated smart way. READ MORE

6. 10. A Tourist Translation : Passives, adjectives, terminology and cultural aspects in translation from English to Swedish in the tourist brochure Dover Castle

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Madeleine Lejervall; [2006]
   Keywords : passives; attributive adjectives; terminology; cultural aspects; translation strategies;

   Abstract : This study deals with difficulties of different nature encountered in the process of translating a tourist booklet on Dover Castle, published by English Heritage. The study focuses on grammatical aspects as the translation of the passive and attributive adjectives, and lexical aspects as the translation of terminology and cultural words and expressions. READ MORE