Translation can have long-term effects on all languages and cultures. It is not a mere linguistic act, but mostly a cultural act, since language is by nature one of the major carriers of cultural elements. Thus, the translator’s job is not just transferring the meaning of words and sentences from the source text to the target text. Culture-specific items often cause translation problems. Identi...

This research is about the use of footnotes in an Indonesian source text and English target text. It involves a translation literary work called novel from into English. The deals with some cultures; Arabic/Islamic culture applied Islamic boarding school, Minangkabau culture, culture. That why author needs to strengthen information using regarding terms or words his novel. When which need be pu...

this study aimed to assess the quality of persian translation of orwell's (1949) nineteen eighty-four by balooch (2004) based on house's (1997) model of translation quality assessment. to do so, 23 pages (about 10 percent) of the source text were randomly selected. the profile of the source text register was produced and the genre was realized. the source text profile was compared to the transl...

Among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with particular emphasis on the framework of Van Dijk (1999), the present investigation is an attempt to shed light on the relationship between language and ideology involved in translation in general, and more speci...

to investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

Pearson's chi-squared test is probably the most popular statistical test used in corpus linguistics, particularly for studying linguistic variations between corpora. Oakes and Farrow (Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2007, 22, 85-99) proposed various adaptations of this test in order to allow for the simultaneous comparison of more than two corpora, while also yielding an almost correct Type ...