The humanist mission of translation is believed to be rooted in the universal humane urge to spread knowledge and to eliminate misunderstanding among people as well as to generate a broader space for communication. What is absent from this philanthropist definition is the workings of power and the political agendas that influence the translator's stance and his/her interpretation of the text th...

This study investigated the translation strategies of culture-specific items in translation of 'Othello' by William Shakespeare into Persian by Abdolhossein Nooshin. First, the English culture-specific items and their corresponding translations were identified. Then, the frequency of the strategies used by the translator according to Newmark's translation model and Venuti's domestication and fo...

Literary translation, among other types of projects a lot challenges for translators especially those dealing with disparate languages like Arabic and English. This study investigates the English translation two short stories by Iraqi writer Karim Abid. The highlights main challenges: linguistic cultural. cites illustrative examples where points misunderstanding original text, mistranslation, l...

English translations of texts associated with Arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of Arabic fiction translation into English as a socially situated activity. Works of Arabic fiction emerged in English translation in the early twentieth century. Since then, this intellectual field...

To date, the non-manual components of signed utterances have rarely been considered in automatic sign language translation. However, these components are capable of carrying important linguistic information. This paper presents work that bridges the gap between the output of a sign language translation system and the input of a sign language animation system by incorporating non-manual informat...

The development of sociological approach to the study of translation makes it possible for the researchers to adopt different methodology to develop new theoretical formulations and concepts. These formulations are arrived at through the interaction with those being studied through the interpretation of real social world and meanings of the participants involved in the translation/social event....