linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with english as a foreign language, gender and english proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect english learning and its quality in iranian context. the present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general english tests (cloze test and recall t...

this paper examines translating free indirect discourse (fid) in three persian translations of woolf's to the lighthouse. first, it is referred to narrative discourse and the linguistic markers of fid as well as its effects and functions briefly. then, translating fid in three hoseini's, bejanian's and keyhan's translations of woolf's novel is analyzed, through comparin...

I, Karin Reinhold, [Certified Translator from German to English, Certified Court Interpreter German/English,] a Member in good standing of the Society of Translators and Interpreters of British Columbia (STIBC), hereby attest that I am proficient in German to English translation and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the following document is a true, correct and complete translation ...

In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm for the Chinese-to-English speech-to-speech (S2S) translation, which is interactive under the guidance of dialogue management. In this approach, the input utterance is first pre-processed and then serially translated by the template-based translator and the interlingua based translator. The dialogue management mechanism (DMM) is employed to supervise t...

Translation plays an important role in conveying and manipulating ideologies. Accordingly, this study sought to analyze the ideological elements in the English subtitles of the Persian movie The Salesman. The framework to find the driven ideological strategies in the translation of the Persian audio of the same movie was based on the critical discourse analysis (...

Translation of humor and transferring its effect is one of the most challenging tasks of a translator due to the cultural clashes between the source language (SL) and the target language (TL). Accordingly, the pre- sent study aimed to specify the most frequently applied strategies in terms of Delabastita’s wordplay model used in SL and their translation strategy by Persian translators acc...