Translation as Writing Across Languages: Samuel Beckett and Fakir Mohan Senapati

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

Jackson’s Parrot: Samuel Beckett, Aphasic Speech Automatisms, and Psychosomatic Language

This article explores the relationship between automatic and involuntary language in the work of Samuel Beckett and late nineteenth-century neurological conceptions of language that emerged from aphasiology. Using the work of John Hughlings Jackson alongside contemporary neuroscientific research, we explore the significance of the lexical and affective symmetries between Beckett's compulsive an...

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Translation and Extension of Concepts Across Languages

We present a method which, given a few words defining a concept in some language, retrieves, disambiguates and extends corresponding terms that define a similar concept in another specified language. This can be very useful for cross-lingual information retrieval and the preparation of multi-lingual lexical resources. We automatically obtain term translations from multilingual dictionaries and ...

efl learners collocational knowledge in writing and translation

این مطالعه به بررسی دانش همنشین های دانشجویان زبان انگلیسی فارسی زبان می پردازد. در ابتدا، ارتباط یین دانش عمومی زبان و دانش همنشین های زبان آموزان مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. دومین هدف این مطالعه بررسی استراتژیهای مورد استفاده در ترجمه همنشین های انگلیسی به فارسی است. در نهایت، خطا های زبان آموزان در تولید و درک همنشین ها مورد آنالیز و بررسی قرار می گیرد. دویست و بیست هفت دانشجوی زبان در این مطال...