The dissertation aims to engage a critical analysis of the cultural implications of translation practice in the context of postcolonial African literature and film in Setswana language. It argues for the integration of decolonial and culturally relevant translations in post-colo…
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Vicarious trauma is the cumulative and pervasive effect of being exposed to trauma survivors, predominantly researched in the workplace. The field of interpreting, both in spoken and signed language, has attempted to study vicarious trauma suggesting that interpreters do work wi…
In 2006 an obscure Catalan science fiction writer caught the attention of genre enthusiasts with his short novella Ñ. It was the introductory tale in an anthology of alternate Spanish histories – ucronias in Spanish – titled Franco: una historia alternativa. Readers responded to…
Ambiguity is the presence of more than one meaning in any human spoken or written expression. Research in language and communication shows that natural languages are inherently ambiguous (Prior, Wintner, McWhinney, & Lavie, 2009). Such ambiguity can be found lexically at the sem…
This is a translation of Dr. Erika Almenara’s complete published collection of poetry. The original publications span a period of over twelve years of work, with books published in 2006, 2008, and 2018. The first book of poetry in this series of translations, Reino Cerrado (Clos…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Plautus’s comedies, inherently translated works, negotiate foreign characters and foreignness within their hybrid theatrical and extra-theatrical spaces. This project is part of a larger discourse on the tension between Greek, Roman, …
The main aim of this thesis is to examine translation practices in Saudi Arabia as “socially situated” activities in the second half of the 20th century. Drawing on Bourdieu’s sociological model, the study situates the translation activities of academic, private, and literary in…
This thesis sets out to investigate the role of cohesion in the organisation and processing of three text types in English and Arabic. In other words, it attempts to shed some light on the descriptive and explanatory power of cohesion in different text typologies. To this effect…
This thesis looks at the selection, production and reception of Dylan Thomas's works in China from a sociological approach, with a focus on the role of translation agents. The study begins with the reception of Thomas's works in China. It shows that as one of the reception modes…
Ahmed Abodehman is a Saudi Arabian poet who, in an attempt to preserve his oral rural culture through writing, decided to write his first novel in French. A year after the publication, Abodehman translated his own work into Arabic. This study examines Abodehman's strategies when…
The present thesis investigates the link between migrant writing and translation studies from a practice-led position on the basis of my own Italian translation of Caterina Edwards' novel The Lion's Mouth (1982). This literary text, taken as an exemplary model of Anglophone Ital…
The concept of prefigurative politics, generally referring to the creation of an alternative society within the here and now, has proven highly productive in understanding contemporary social movements that aim to contest the thorough entanglement of capitalism and democracy. To…
It is widely acknowledged that mass media play a central role in circulating and disseminating ideas. Particularly in this globalised era, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the role and impact of news media in shaping public opinion worldwide. During the attacks on…
This research is located within the framework of descriptive translation studies and corpus-based contrastive discourse analysis. Modern Translation Studies has growingly taken into account the complexities of culture-specific expressions in literary translation. Conference inte…
This thesis offers an analysis of the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms (9th-15th centuries AD) on three levels, (i) translation, (ii) individual styles and (iii) genre. It particularly examines meta-discursive features such as cohesion, subjectivity, hedges, the …
This study analyses five British translations of Bertolt Brecht's 'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'. Two of these translations were written by speakers of German, and three by well-known British playwrights with no knowledge of the source text language. Four have been produced in…
This work focuses on translated political speeches made by Canadas prime minister during times of national crises. Delivered orally in both English and French, this translation-based political discourse is examined in a tripartite manner, offering the reader contextualisation of…
