Translation Essays

Challenges Translating Culture-Specific References: Harry Potter

Example essay. Last modified: 8th Dec 2020

This essay has discussed the ways in which Azofra and García approach the translation of Harry Potter y la cámara secreta....

Chritiane Nord's Notion of 'Function Plus Loyalty'

Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017

INTRODUCTION The emergence of functionalist approaches to translation in the 1970s and 1980s was quite revolutionary in that it marked the move from what Munday (2001: 72) describes as ‘the stat...

Contributions of Functionalist Approaches to Translation

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INTRODUCTION The 1980s saw the birth of a number of approaches to Translation Studies (TS henceforth) collectively termed functionalist, which brought about a paradigm shift in the system. This essay ...

Critical Review of Nida’s Theory of Equivalence for Chinese-English Translation

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Critical Review of Nida’s Theory of Equivalence for Chinese-English Translation 1 Introduction The concept of equivalence is widely discussed in translation studies and has pl...

Development of Translation Studies and Approaches

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Introduction The present monograph is an attempt to demonstrate the fact that Translation Studies is not a mere branch of linguistics but an extensive discipline with many branches and very significan...

Difference between Language Interpreters and Bilingualism

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Discuss how interpreters can be distinguished from people who are merely bilingual. Define the kind of bilingual competencies that a capable interpreter should possess. For quite a long ...

Features of Non-literary Translation

Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jul 2017

This essay aims to explain the features of non literary translation. The texts are both specialised, but the specialist fields differ: text 1 belongs to......

Feminist Translation Studies of Gender and Ideology

Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021

The cultural shift of translation studies in the 1980s combined translation with culture and thus, opened up a new perspective for translation studies—cultural perspective. The cultural turn of translation studies has made the public aware of the political, social, and historical factors of the subject of translation....

Impact of Globalization on Translation

Example essay. Last modified: 15th Sep 2017

Introduction Under the circumstances of globalization, the demand for high-quality and high- speed translations has been increasing worldwide. Satisfying these demands may result of the increasing of ...

Language Translation Methods for Instruments in Research for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Participants:

Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020

Language Translation Methods for Instruments in Research for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Participants: A Literature Review As the globalization phenomenon grows, the interaction be...

Medical Translation: Functionalist Approaches

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Medical Translation: functionalist approaches Translation is used in every day life and is used in multiple fields of work. Translation is defined in the Collins Dictionary as “a piece of writin...

Polish Brewery Market Analysis

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MARKET AND COMPETITION ANALYSIS Shareholders, employees with their families and collaborators with their families benefit from the beer business. According to the industry estimates this branch and co...

Strategic Planning Methodology

Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015

Strategic analysis is a process which is based on three stages: analysis, planning and management. We can divide it into two types: function sense, and tool sense. In case of the function sense strate...

Translating from Major Language to Minor Language

Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020

Translation from a major language into a minor one is very different from translating in the opposite direction. Introduction It has been suggested that minority languages are not even acknowledged ...

Translation Essays - Sir Frank Whittle

Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015

The pioneering work of Sir Frank Whittle in developing the jet engine. The pioneering work of Sir Frank Whittle in developing the jet engine helped transform the way civil aviation operates today.  I...

Using Pragmatic Theories in Translation

Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019

Using Pragmatic Theories in Translation By: Brian Friel famously said of translations that, “it is about language and only language.” Could that be true? Is translatin...