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Yes prime manipulator : a descriptive study of a Chinese translation of British political humour
No full textThis is a descriptive study of Chang Nam Fung's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn
and Antony Jay's Yes Prime Minister, a text characterized by British political humour.
Adopting a target-oriented approach, it aims primarily to uncover the regularities which
mark the relationships between function, process and product of the translated text, thus
adding to the limited inventory of case studies in the field.
Targeted mainly towards readers in mainland China, the translation was done at a
time (1987-1992) when the political scene in the People's Republic went through cycles
of repression and relaxation in the face of a democratic movement, while the translation
tradition remained one that upheld the primacy of the original -- a poetics that is
determined by the ideological concept of loyalty.
Working under the constraints of the ideological and poetological norms dominant in
China, the translator nevertheless wished to produce a text with artistic value and a
potential to function as a political satire in the Chinese context, posing a challenge to
those norms. This skopos has determined the use of manipulative strategies in the
translation process,
The translation product is thus found to have been overdetermined by the interplay of
a large number of factors besides the source text: socio-political conditions, literary and
translation traditions, and the translator's poetics and ideology.
Finally, the findings are brought to bear on a number of translation theories,
especially Polysystem theory and other cultural theories of translation in whose
frameworks the study has been carried out. An augmented version of the polysystem
hypothesis is proposed, the gist of which is that the political and the ideological
polysystems, each consisting of competing systems, normally assume central positions in
the macro-polysystem of culture, issuing norms that influence norms originating from
other polysystems, and that translation activities are governed by norms originating from
various polysystems. It is hoped that this tentative 'macro-polysystem hypothesis, after
refinement by theorists and test by researchers, can better accommodate investigations
into the role of the translator together with other socio-cultural factors involved in
translation, especially the power relations
Not like my mother : truth and the author in creative nonfiction
No full textThis exegesis examines how a writer can effectively negotiate the relationship between author, character, fact and truth, in a work of Creative Nonfiction. It was found that individual truths, in a work of Creative Nonfiction, are not necessarily universal truths due to individual, cultural, historical and religious circumstances. What was also identified, through the examination of published Creative Nonfiction, is a necessity to ensure there are clear demarcation lines between authorial truth and fiction. The Creative Nonfiction works examined, which established this framework for the reader, ensured an ethical relationship between author and audience. These strategies and frameworks were then applied to my own Creative Nonfiction
My Faithful Friend
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This was inspired from a situation that one of my family friend was going through. Prayers were offered while looking to God for an answer. This was my reflection of the situation and trust in God
Novel Excerpt: My Name Is Sweet Thing , Part 1 'Whose Little Girl Am I?'
No full textThe night I turned sixteen � in 1979 � I dreamt I swallowed all of my teeth, and Aunt Winnie said it meant disgrace was coming to the family. I forced a laugh but exchanged a concerned look with my cousin, Bernice, as a feeling like ice spread through my abdomen because Aunt Winnie was never wrong
My Thyme
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the AI Literature category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This piece was inspired by the clock ticking away while I was cooking. Reading the poem out loud should make the connection clear. I used AI assistance for rhyme and meter
The Winter of My Soul
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Describes the emptiness of love lost and the desire to find it again
My Queen
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.My inspiration for writing the poem "My Queen" was to model writing elegy poetry for my 7th grade ELA students. My mother had recently passed away and I decided it would be an honorable memory. I didn't have a lot of time to fully process the reality of life without her nor really grieve, because I had a main role in preparing as well as participating in her funeral services, and afterwards, I could not take more time off from work. Writing this poem was very therapeutic for me, and even more so when I read it aloud in class to my students. When I finished reading it, the entire class gave me a standing ovation and many of them (including me) were visibly filled with raw emotions (tears). When they completed their elegy poetry, it was very apparent that my previous moment of transparency had quite a positive influence on their commitment to produce amazing heart-warming poetry
Resonant Spaces: Electroacoustic Music and Ritual: A commentary on my recent music.
No full textThe following portfolio and commentary concerns music and performance works created between 2008 and 2012, and an exposition of the research, ideas, aesthetics and techniques that connect
these works. I will discuss in detail the role that archaeoacoustics has played in my composition of fixed and mixed media works and how it has influenced me aesthetically in my approach to live performance. I will also explain in each instance any actual data used from various research sources, and my metaphorical interpretation of various archaeological sites and acoustic phenomena. Similarly, I will discuss the concepts of shamanism, ritual and transcendence that have influenced me, and how these concepts are expressed in my instrumental works, fixed media and live performance pieces
My First Patient's Final Gift
No full textThe author submitted this entry in the Fictional Short Story category (Amateur division) for the 2023 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Written from the perspective of a first-year medical school, this is a short story about what I imagine the experience of dissecting a cadaver would feel like
Patients Are Discovering 'My Doctor, the Author'
No full texthttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85606/1/Patients Are Discovering 'My Doctor, the Author' - New York Times.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85606/4/PatientsAreDiscoveringMyDoctorTheAuthor.pdfDescription of Patients Are Discovering 'My Doctor, the Author' - New York Times.pdf : Superseded.Description of PatientsAreDiscoveringMyDoctorTheAuthor.pdf : "What could be more central to the understanding of the human condition than a reflection on the diseases to which we are all susceptible?
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