Essays about: "translation universals"

Found 3 essays containing the words translation universals.

  1. 1. A contrastive study on the translation of hyphenated compounds in fashion writing

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jennifer Tobiasson; [2023]
    Keywords : English; explicitation; fashion writing; hyphenated compounds; simplification; Swedish; translation; translation strategies; translation universals;

    Abstract : This study examines the translation of hyphenated compounds from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about fashion. The translation is performed by the author of this study, which is important to keep in mind. READ MORE

  3. 2. 'Consider' and its Swedish equivalents in relation to machine translation

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Karin Andersson; [2007]
    Keywords : ’consider’; semantic primes and universals; conceptual semantics; mental spaces; WordNet; FrameNet; machine translation;

    Abstract : This study describes the English verb ’consider’ and the characteristics of some of its senses. An investigation of this kind may be useful, since a machine translation program, SYSTRAN, has invariably translated ’consider’ with the Swedish verbs ’betrakta’ (Eng: ’view’, regard’) and ’anse’ (Eng: ’regard’). READ MORE

  4. 3. Tracing Translation Universals and Translator Development by Word Aligning a Harry Potter Corpus

    University essay from Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Sofia Helgegren; [2005]
    Keywords : word alignment; translation universals; translator development; corpus; additions; deletions;

    Abstract : For the purpose of this descriptive translation study, a translation corpus was built from roughly the first 20,000 words of each of the first four Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling, and their respective translations into Swedish. READ MORE