A drama of selves: Investigating teacher identity development from dialogical and complexity perspectives

Author(s): Alastair Henry / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Identity is of increasing interest in teacher education. Crucial for resilience, the development of a coherent professional identity has been characterized as emerging from tensions between multiple and sometimes conflicting conceptions of what it means to be someone who teaches (Akkerman & Meijer, 2011). While light is being shed on these often antagonistic relations, less is known about the dynamics of identity formation and transformation. Providing a contribution to work on language teacher identity, in this single case study Hermans’ (2008) concept of the dialogical self is combined with complexity principles in an investigation of changes in the emerging professional identity of a pre-service English teacher during a practicum. Drawing on intra- and inter-personal data, experiences of learning to become a person who teaches English are conceptualized as a drama that is played out between different and sometimes unaligned selves. Analyses show how this inner drama maps onto the landscape of an emerging teacher identity, how tensions can be understood systemically, and how a teacher identity system can have a signature dynamic.

A DUAL PERSPECTIVE IN LEGAL TRANSLATION

Author(s): Radegundis STOLZE / Language(s): English / Issue: 7/2014

The article describes, on the basis of hermeneutics, the specific perspective from which a translator may approach legal texts, as translation is seen as a personalized activity. Different text types are rooted in a specific legal system and fulfil their function within a special field of law, and the cultural and legal background is evident in linguistic aspects on a textual level. Comparative law carries out research on the differences in legal concepts, whereas translation studies and practice use this knowledge as a basis for work. Legal terminology has various levels of abstraction and appears in texts along with general language words. Fields of orientation for the translator are presented here, such as legal contexts, genre, concepts and style. This should be combined with proficiency in writing according to the text function, terminology and standard formulae. The translator tries to make source cultural and legal aspects transparent for target readers, as translation is always a means of comprehension that furthers communication.

A fordítás fordítása: a émet fordítás hatása a magyar visszafordítások kommunikatív dinamizmusára

Author(s): Zsolt Pápista / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

The present paper explores the influence of a Hungarian text’s German translation on the communicative dynamism of such texts that present Hungarian back-translations of the German translation. The analysis was conducted on five texts with emphasis on their theme-rheme division: on the first chapter of Dezső Kosztolányi’s novel Skylark (in Hungarian: Pacsirta), its German translation, as well as three students’ translations that were the Hungarian back-translations of the German translation. The analysis concluded that the German text did not have a relevant influence on the rhematic sections of the students’ translations. It did, however, greatly affect the number of thematic sections, as it (to a lesser extent) caused certain thematic sections (that are present in the original source text) to be missing in the students’ translations, while also (to a greater extent) leading to a rise in the overall number of thematic sections.

A fordítók szakmai etikájának kihívásai

Author(s): Attila Imre / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2019

Translation has grown into a fully-fledged industry in the online world of the 21st century, and a professional code of ethics may help them do a quality job. Nevertheless, certain challenges must be faced, as complying with a code of ethics is neither compulsory nor does it have legal consequences. Our study discusses factors influencing professional ethics, such as the source text, clients, fellow translators and own personality. The paper ends with a few concluding remarks, followed by the references.

A görög irodalom újraéledése az első humanista fordításokban

Author(s): József Marton / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2010

The rebirth of the Greek culture is one of the unique characters of the renaissance humanism which makes it different from other renaissance movements. In that played the new Latin translations of the Greek classics crucial role which were pre-determined for the whole period by programming activity of Leonardo Bruni. This study analyses both the method (‘how?’) and motivation (‘why and what?’) of this revival. Firstly, the modern translation method of Bruni is interpreted which finds the essence of the text in its sense, presenting the historical-philological background of the method in the view of the contemporary intellectual schools and its complex linguistic aspects. Secondly, it discovers those literal motives, actual reasons and personal incitements according to that the Greek authors and works were chosen to be translated and purposefully ordered.

A gótikus stílusról

Author(s): Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2015

A híres gyulafehérvár-nagyenyedi Bethlen-Kollégium alapítása és története (részlet)

Author(s): Ferenc Pápai Páriz / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2015

A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF TRANSLATION-ORIENTED TERMINOLOGY IN CANADIAN TERMINOLOGY: SCIENCE

Author(s): Jana Ukušová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The paper deals with the origins of translation-oriented terminology in Canada and the role itplays in the Canadian terminology of science. We define the concept of translation-oriented terminology withregard to other new approaches to terminology research. We provide background information on languagepolicy in Canada to determine the main factors that have shaped translation-oriented terminologydevelopment at the very beginning. We also try to identify those factors which later ensured that terminologybecomes an autonomous discipline in Canada with an undeniably important place in translation-orientedterminology.

A hűség, a szépség és az élet. A műfordítás köztes terei

Author(s): Ferenc András / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

The success of both literary translation and understanding of the meaning expressed in images depends on the chances of realizing the meaning attribution. The correct meaning attribution is actually nothing more than harmony. Harmony is understanding in itself: we understand the other person when we attribute to the expression what the sender of the message attributes to the countless possible meanings. The identity of meaning attribution is the criterion for correct understanding. In all other cases, there is no understanding but misunderstanding. Warren Goldfarb, referring to Wittgenstein, writes that all the problems related to following the rules can be traced back to the paradigm of identity in some way. I have no doubt that Goldfarb’s statement can be extended to the whole question of understanding: all the problems of understanding and interpreting can be traced back to the paradigm of identity in some way. In my presentation, I take the criteria of this identity into consideration.

A HYBRID TRANSLATION THEORY FOR EU TEXTS

Author(s): Vilelmini Sosoni / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2012

EU texts are produced by way of multilingual negotiation in a supranational multicultural discourse community, where there is no linguistically neutral ground and where the internationalisation of concepts and ideas is a sine qua non. As a result, they are idiosyncratic texts, reflecting specific textual features. Their translation in the current 23 official EU languages is equally idiosyncratic and challenging, to say the least, especially since it is shaped under the EU’s overwhelming cultural and linguistic diversity, the constraints of its policy of multilingualism, and the subsequent policy of linguistic equality which states that all languages are equal, or ‘equally authentic’ (Wagner, Bech, Martínez 2002, 7), and that translations are not really translations but language versions. In other words, in the framework of EU translation, the terms source text (ST) and target text (TT) cease to exist, while the prima facie illusory notion of ‘equivalence’ seems to resurface—though altered in nature—and dominate the translation practice. It thus goes without saying that in the case of EU texts and their translation a tailor-made theoretical framework is required where many classic concepts of Translation Studies (TS), such as ST, TT and equivalence need to be re-evaluated and redefined, and at the same time functionalist approaches and the postmodernist concepts of intertextuality, hybridity and in-betweenness need to come to the fore. The proposed translation theory for EU texts flaunts the feature inherent in their production, it is—just like them—hybrid.

A I CZŁOWIEK SAM BY SIEBIE NIE ODRÓŻNIŁ, GDYBY NIE MIAŁ SŁÓW: O WYBRANYCH ASPEKTACH ANGIELSKIEGO PRZEKŁADU POWIEŚCI „KAMIEŃ NA KAMIENIU” WIESŁAWA MYŚLIWSKIEGO

Author(s): Malina Załużna-Łuczkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2016

O wartości artystycznej powieści „Kamień na kamieniu” Wiesława Myśliwskiego stanowi między innymi język potoczny, który stwarza przedstawiony świat i bohaterów. Autorem przekładu na język angielski jest Bill Johnston. Przedmiotem zainteresowania artykułu jest tłumaczenie regionalizmów, gwarowej leksyki oraz frazeologii z zastosowaniem strategii egzotyzujących, jak również oswajających. W artykule przedstawione są także sposoby oddania potoczności za pomocą składni i ich tłumaczenie na język angielski.

A kétnyelvűség lenyomatai

Célnyelvi interferenciák Terézia Mora Das Ungeheuer című regényében és magyar fordításában

Author(s): Lídia Nádori / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2018

The German writer Terézia Mora (1971) grew up with a double, Hungarian-German linguistic identity. She reflects on her own bilingualism in many ways, also on the micro level of the text. How can this linguistic duality be kept in the Hungarian translation? What translation strategies are to be applied in order to keep the intentional foreignness of the original in the Hungarian target text, if this foreignness is produced by using the very characteristics of the Hungarian language in the German original? This case study focuses on the reflection of bilingualism and the translation problems arising from reflection in literary texts by studying examples taken from the novel Das Ungeheuer by Terézia Mora. Self-observation that looks back and the analysis of the text examine wether the translator finds the solutions satisfactory from the point of cultural transfer. The conclusion is that the translator, when choosing among the alternative solutions available, works assuming that the recipient interprets the work in a much wider context than the translated text.

A Krall-papirusz elbeszélése az Iret-Hor-eru (Inarosz ) herceg vértjéért vívott küzdelemről

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2012

A lélek üdvösségéről

Author(s): Georg Simmel / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2015

A Lexicographic Approach to the English-Romanian/Romanian-English Legal Dictionaries and Glossaries Existing on the Romanian Book Market

Author(s): Carmen D. Caraiman / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The goal of the study is to highlight the main methods used by the authors to create legal dictionaries and glossaries in English-Romanian and Romanian-English available on the book market today. Specialists and those interested in studying the content and structure of such dictionaries will notice the low number of works on the Romanian market compared to, for example, the field of economics. Furthermore, one may find the terms included to be insufficient, their structures simple. Our study shall analyze both the criteria the authors of the dictionaries used to select the terms, as well as their structure (phonetic transcription, contextualization, identifying countable/ uncountable nouns, denoting special plural forms, references to synonyms or another term from the dictionary to eliminate ambiguities, etc.).

A Life of Languages: The Contributions of Kató Lomb to Language Learning and Interpreting through Her Second-Language Acquisition Theory

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Author(s): Timea Ferencz / Language(s): English / Issue: Special/2017

This article aims to present the life and work of Kató Lomb (1909-2003)—one of Hungary’s most accomplished interpreters,translators and linguists—in the light of interpreting and interpretertraining. Due to the dire circumstances during and after the Second World War, at the beginning of her lifelong language-learning journey Lomb faced a lack of foreign language teachers in post-war Hungary, limited works of literature (especially in ‘exotic’ languages), even fewer textbooks and very little contact with the spoken languages. This interplay between hardship, necessity and innate curiosity towards languages, paired with remarkable perseverance, led to the emergence of her novel language acquisition method in which pleasure reading, i.e. reading in the learner’s areas of interest, plays a central role. The majority of the sixteen languages that Lomb learned throughout her adult life, and which she used in her decades-long career as one of the first simultaneous interpreters in Hungary, were self-taught. Her legacy, both as interpreter and author, has contributed to the popularisation of the interpreting profession and left an indelible mark both on foreign language acquisition theory from the perspective of a polyglot and, indirectly, on interpreting. Her success in mastering an impressively large number of languages makes her recommendations regarding autonomous language learning extremely valuable, especially for interpreters wanting to improve their passive language skills or to learn a new language. In this article we will examine the ways in which learners can use Lomb’s method and compare it to existing second-language acquisition (SLA) research, but also establish connections between her recommendations regarding language learning and interpreter training.

A linguistic landscape analysis of Pattaya, Thailand’s sin city

Author(s): Keerati Prasert,Pattamawan Jimarkon Zilli / Language(s): English,Arabic,Chinese,Thai / Issue: 1/2019

Pattaya is one of the most popular tourist destinations attracting international travelers. Given its uniquely cosmopolitan nature, it can be regarded as one of the most multilingual and multicultural areas, making it linguistically stand out from other big cities. This paper, therefore, aims to explore the linguistic landscape of Pattaya’s two main streets by analyzing the data (542 signs) collected from commercial signs. The results present the variation and dominance of the use of languages in those public spaces. By highlighting the differences among the various linguistic landscapes, it draws on the factors of business types and population dominance.

A Literatura ­Mundo e O ano em que Pigafetta completou a circum­navegação

Author(s): Maria Luísa Malato / Language(s): Portuguese / Issue: 3/2019

The first voyage of circumnavigation – started in 1519 by Magellan, completed by Elcano (1522), and narrated by Pigafetta in Relazione del primo viaggio in torno al mondo (1524) – gave empirical answers to four different scientific questions: if one could travel by sea and reach East by navigating West; if the American continent had a south passage to another ocean; what was the real dimension of the Equator; and if going eastwards made travels shorter, showing that time is conditioned by the direction of movement. Travels prove, according to Roditi, the relativity of “time, space, matter and the world as a continuum”. The Year Pigafetta Completed the Circumnavigation [O ano em que Pigafetta completoua circum-navegação] – a novel published in 2013 by Luís Cardoso and based on a dialogue with Pigafetta’s writing – seems to address, metaphorically, similar questions about “World-Literature”: if space, time, matter and the world are interrelated concepts in translation.

A Lost Lady: A Narrative of Manifest Destiny and Neocolonialism

Author(s): Ammar Aqeeli / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The greatly examined story of A Lost Lady usually depicts Mrs. Forrester’s success in meeting and adapting to the challenges of a changing world, a world characterized by materialism and self-fulfilment. However, the overlooked story, one far more disturbing than the privileged story in the text, is the narrative of oppressed groups of people of other races and the lower class. Drawing on some aspects of postcolonial theory, this paper explores Willa Cather’s own reactions to real changes in her society, to the waning power of imperialism, and of her nostalgic longing for the western prairies of her youth, without showing any sympathy for the dispossessed Native Americans and other oppressed races. It will also disclose the unmistakable colonial overtones, which remarkably resonate with the common discourse of “Manifest Destiny” during the time period of American expansion to the Wild West.

A METAANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF TRANSLATION STUDIES

Author(s): Katalin Nagy Imola / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 13/2018

This study is a metanalysis of the notion translation studies. One of the most recent of humanistic disciplines, translation studies has been provided the name it is referred to these days in the early 1970s, although theoretical considerations regarding translation started to appear even in ancient times. Our paper focuses on different taxonomies related to translation studies, the terminological implications, related notions and we tend to present some of the most important theories regarding the conceptual meaning of the term `translation studies`.