Essays about: "translation and linguistic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 52 essays containing the words translation and linguistic.

  1. 1. A (COMPREHENSIVE) SEXUALITY EDUCATION? A Qualitative Field Study About the Support or Resistance of Communities Toward Sexuality Education in Guatemala

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Karolina Lecalonnec; [2023-04-11]
    Keywords : Sexual Politics; Comprehensive Sexuality Education; Resistance; Support; Communities; Secondary School Teachers; Guatemala;

    Abstract : Sexuality education is considered a fundamental element to improve public health outcomes, informing young people about their rights and sexual health, and contributing to sustainable development. However, in many countries around the world, it remains a sensitive topic, often as a result of sociocultural and religious taboos, which due to recent efforts has received renewed resistance and opposition. READ MORE

  3. 2. Syntax-based Concept Alignment for Machine Translation

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Arianna Masciolini; [2023-03-30]
    Keywords : computational linguistic; machine translation; concept alignment; syntax; dependency parsing; Universal Dependencies; Grammatical Framework;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a syntax-based approach to Concept Alignment (CA), the task of finding semantical correspondences between parts of multilingual parallel texts, with a focus on Machine Translation (MT). Two variants of CA are taken into account: Concept Extraction (CE), whose aim is to identify new concepts by means of mere linguistic comparison, and Concept Propagation (CP), which consists in looking for the translation equivalents of a set of known concepts in a new language. READ MORE

  4. 3. Trilingual spoken word recognition : Interlingual competition from one or two non-target languages in a sentence context

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Yulia Kashevarova; [2023]
    Keywords : trilingual speech processing; cross-linguistic competition; sentence context; BLINCS; BIA ;

    Abstract : Persistent non-target language co-activation in spoken and visual language comprehension has been found both at the word-level and at the level of a sentence, although in the latter case, sentence bias has been observed to modulate the co-activation which can create lexical competition. In the case of trilingual speakers, both non-target languages may potentially compete with the third language (L3). READ MORE

  5. 4. Translation of Japanese children’s literature into Finnish examined through the lens of functionality : A case study

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Samppa Luoma-Halkola; [2023]
    Keywords : children’s literature; functional translation; JapaneseFinnish translation; picture book; skopos theory;

    Abstract : Japanese children’s literature translated directly into Finnish is a very novel phenomenon, which is why there is currently a vacuum of research in that area. This study aims to begin to fill that vacuum. READ MORE

  6. 5. Salkinson’s Pursuit of Bringing the New Testament into the Treasure Houseof Hebrew Literature : The controversy surrounding a Haskalah Hebrew translation of the New Testament

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Semitiska språk: Arabiska, Arameiska/Syriska, Etiopiska, Hebreiska

    Author : Herta Maria Dixon; [2023]
    Keywords : Haskalah Hebrew; NT translations; Meliṣah; Jewish;

    Abstract : This study deals with the surprising commissioning of a new translation into Hebrew of the New Testament only months after the prestigious translation by the celebrated German Hebraist Prof. Franz Delitzsch had been published, in 1877. READ MORE