Essays about: "toury"

Found 3 essays containing the word toury.

  1. 1. Functions and Strategies : The translation of narrative metaphors in a popular scientific text

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Sara Heikkilä; [2015]
    Keywords : Translation strategies; metaphor functions; narrative themes; conceptual metaphor;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to describe how functions of metaphors relate to translation strategiesin a translation of a popular scientific article from English to Swedish. The investigation isbased on a close reading of the source and target texts which identifies metaphors of fourdifferent functions: pedagogical, theory-constitutive, decorative and narrative. READ MORE

  3. 2. A standard case of subtitling. : A comparative analysis of the subtitling of Scrubs and House M.D. with a focus on medical terminology.

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Klara Lindell; [2010]
    Keywords : Descriptive translation studies; AVT; subtitling; television; genre; text-type; register; medical terminology; standardisation; centripetal effect.;

    Abstract : Toury’s first law of translation states that translation of all kinds entails standardisation and, moreover, that the more peripheral the status of a text is, the more standardised its translation will be. As such, the purpose of this essay was to investigate to what extent this holds true in the Swedish translations of the two US television hospital shows Scrubs and House M. READ MORE

  4. 3. Translation Norms, Strategies and Solutions in Lagerlöf's The Further Adventures of Nils (1911) : A Comparative Analysis of Proper Nouns and Lexical Items for Natural Phenomena

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Elin Bäckström; [2009]
    Keywords : translation; Lagerlöf; English; Swedish; initial norm; domestication; foreignization; översättning; nils; holgersson; engelska; selma; lagerlöf; swanston; howard; swanston howard; pedersen; toury; newmark; shiyab;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to examine translation norms, strategies and solutions in chapter XIII Westbottom and Lapland in The Further Adventures of Nils (Lagerlöf, 1911). In the foreword to the English translation of the novel, the translator writes that some of the purely geographical matter has been eliminated in the translation, and that cuts have been made where the descriptive matter is only of local interest. READ MORE