"The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies, testify to a topical and disc…
The corpus-based approach has developed into a well established paradigm in translation studies and has been recognized as a principal reason for the revival of contrastive linguistics since the 1990s, while corpus-based contrastive and translation studies have in turn significa…
The corpus-based approach has developed into a well established paradigm in translation studies and has been recognised as a principal reason for the revival of contrastive linguistics since the 1990s, while corpus-based contrastive and translation studies have in turn significa…
This title explores the theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation studies. It represents the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, corpus-based contrastive studies, parrallel corpus developmen…
UNESCO’s Index Translationum consistently ranks William Shakespeare among its top ten most-translated authors, which means that many of the people experiencing Shakespeare’s work are seeing it through an additional layer of interpretation. How different are these translations fr…
Yüzlerce yıllık birikime sahip Türk İslâm edebiyatı sahasında pek çok edebî tür neşv ü nemâ bulmuştur. Bu türlerden biri de manzum nasihat-nâmelerdir. İlk Türkçe eserlerden itibaren müellifler, bireyi ve toplumu iyiye teşvik etmek için eserlerini nasihat-âmîz motiflerle süslemiş…
The proposed project is motivated by the outstanding need for an accessible English translation of Yik Kalima (One Word), written in Persian and Arabic in 1875 by Mīrzā Yusef Khān Tabryzy (1813-1895). The book's main argument is a proposal for a revolutionary aim in modernizing …
In 1534 Martin Luther (1483–1546) completed his German translation of the Bible, a work that became one of the most important texts produced in Early Modern Europe. This thesis studies Luther’s Bible in order to argue that Luther utilized both literal, or ad verbum, and free, or…
The debate on the meaning of pistis in 2 Peter 1:1 has alternated between subjective faith (belief) and objective faith (the Faith). However, agreeing with Fredrick W. Danker’s analysis, a secular Hellenistic meaning of pistis better explains the distinctive context of 2 Peter 1…
In this dissertation, I argue that the degree to which Scripture engagement is contextualized to a Muslim social environment directly impacts the formation of movements to Christ and their nascent ecclesiological boundaries relating to the broader Church. The issue prompting thi…
This dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of Lengzhai yehua 冷齋夜話 (Night Chats from Chilly Hut), a ten chapter miscellany (biji 筆記), by the monk Juefan Huihong 覺範惠洪 (1071-1128). My study contributes to our understanding of twelfth century Chinese cultural history in the…
In the 1940s José María Arguedas and Francisco Izquierdo Ríos collected oral tradition stories from three separate geographical areas of Peru. The publication of these legends, myths and Peruvian tales (Mitos, leyendas y cuentos peruanos 1947) and its function as an historical r…
This dissertation argues that early modern English literature was an essential part of the first global aesthetic movement—the baroque. While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from English literary his…
本論文研究目的是以倪豪士及其團隊的《史記》英譯為中心，對該個案中翻譯與 學術研究密切關聯、互為推動的情形，作詳細而深入的分析，進而闡發「學術翻譯」 的內涵，推展「學術翻譯」概念的深度與廣度。並期望在《史記》西譯脈絡中，探討 倪豪士《史記》英譯在西方漢學和《史記》研究發展中的意義。
Despite the important role played by St. Jerome (331–420) in the history of translation, his own translations have suffered some neglect when it comes to detailed investigations of his theory and praxis. In particular, the distinction he espoused between his ordinary sense-for-s…
This thesis analyzes, for the first time, how audiences have engaged with Shakespeare in both colonial and post-colonial Punjab, a state in India. It demonstrates how Shakespeare’s cultural mobility is dependent upon how target cultures re-semniotize his plays to accommodate ele…
While the literary oeuvre of French author Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) has been extensively studied, his work as a literary translator has been largely overlooked. Queneau was a prominent member of the French literary avant-garde, but also a literary translator for two decades (…