Using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. The study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: Is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? And if yes, can it be ana...

several novels have appeared after the september 11 attacks whichdeal directly or indirectly with the effect of the event on individuals, both insideand outside of the united states. though, the novels often claim to deal withthe post- traumatic aftermath of the incident, the writers regularly use orientaliststereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 this attitude toward muslims has hardenedand ...

this article traces the way women are represented in three novels written by women during the reform government 1375-1384/1996-2005. the most important characteristic of these novels is the internal dialogue of the narrator. this phenomenon helps to penetrate the layers of the female mind and to reach the inner world of women. this is a new phenomenon in the iranian novel and our aim is to know...

Many critics believe that because men and women have different life experiences, the writing of male and female authors will differ, as well. Some believe that male authors are not able to write accurately from the female perspective or present feminist ideals because they have not experienced life as women. The majority of the time, life from the female point of view is portrayed in literature...

This study documents a teacher-researcher’s presentations of 24 literary works to a class of 28 Taiwanese EFL senior high school students during a fourteen-week experiment, and reports on those students’ perceptions of the texts introduced and their attitudes towards literature in general. In preparing literary texts, the teacher explored the notion of computer assisted literature teaching (CAL...

The first objective of this paper is carry out three experiments intended to evaluate authorship attribution methods based on three test-collections available in three different languages (English, French, and German). In the first we represent and categorize 52 text excerpts written by nine authors and taken from 19th century English novels. In the second we work with 44 segments from French n...

Given the rise of a new approach to MT, Neural MT (NMT), and its promising performance on different text types, we assess the translation quality it can attain on what is perceived to be the greatest challenge for MT: literary text. Specifically, we target novels, arguably the most popular type of literary text. We build a literary-adapted NMT system for the English-to-Catalan translation direc...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

To cite: Iqbal K. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:300–302. INTRODUCTION Romance novels are defined broadly as fiction focused on a central love story, which is concluded in an emotionally satisfying and optimistic manner. Romance is one of the most popular genres, accounting for the largest market share in fiction. In 2009, romantic fiction generated approximately $1.4 billion in the USA...