On translating Francesco Guicciardini’s political writings

CEP Discussion Paper No 1091 November 2011 Resource Windfalls , Political Regimes , and Political Stability Francesco Caselli and

We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences in autocracies. In particular, when an autocratic country receives a positive shock to its flow of r...

Antimicrobial resistance: translating political commitment into national action

Translating Chinese Political Discourse: a Functional-cognitive Approach to English Translations of Chinese Political Speeches

This thesis presents a theoretical attempt to look into the process of political translation in China and the textual products from a functional-cognitive perspective by combining the CDA models of Fairclough and van Dijk. The functional linguistic parameters parallel to Fairclough’s functional forms of textual analysis serve as a micro-level device for the close examination of texts. At the ma...

Translating Political Texts with and without the Defined Skopos: The Case of Iranian Translators

The aim of the present study was to investigate the importance of skopos in the translation of political texts from English into Persian. To do this, 30 Iranian translators were conveniently selected and equally divided into the in-house and freelance translators. They were asked to translate a translation test encompassing 10 short political texts that were extracted from English news websites...

Francesco Boato