Qiuying Jiang
11/03/2017
Programming for Cultural Data Analysis - Proposal
A Quantitative Style Analysis about Different English Translations of the
Captain’s Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
Data Set
The data set includes three English translations of The Captain’s Daughter (Alexander Pushkin,
1836) from Ekaterina Telfer, T. Keane and Milne Home respectively. The translation of Milne
Home is downloaded from Gutenberg which is an open access project that offers free eBooks to public. The other translations are from Wikisource which serves as an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki. The format of the data set is txt files containing the license, source information and the literature itself.
Audience and Essential
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For instance, as the first Russian literature that was translated in Chinese, the Captain’s Daughter has been affecting Chinese readers and novelists from generation to generation. Besides Chinese translations, English translations of those literature also made great influence in the world. To make Pushkin’s literature enjoyed by more people, some excellent translators such as Milne Home have made great contributions.
Over years, translators and translation scholars have been engaged in heated debates over salient features of the translations, strategies employed by the translators, the possible effects of the different translations and so on (Liu et al, 1997).
With the involvement of statistics and natural language processing methods in literature style analysis, more and more literature scholars leverage quantitative methods to conduct their researches. According to Holmes, an analyst searches for features particularly to a given writer, features of which the writer is probably unaware and which can be measured quantitatively in order to have a basis for comparison with other writers (Holmes et al, 1985). In the case of understanding essential writing style of a writer, quantitative methods such as building and fitting of models to linguistic data and in the testing of hypotheses will definitely be good ways.
In accordance with Defeng Li et al, statistical
A sixth characteristic studied was line quality. Line quality encompasses how the writer used the pen, meaning, the writer either wrote smoothly and confidently or shakily. The writer of both the ransom note and the sample did not write smoothly. The writing was shaky and scrawly. Some parts of words were lighter, not because of pen pressure, but shakiness of the writer. In addition, many letters had poor line quality because of the jaggedness of certain letters. For example, some “s’s” were jagged instead of smooth. This stands true for both pieces of
What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over the others identified in the search results?
The author’s tone is critical, judgmental, and uses as many big words as possible in order to show everyone how much smarter she is than them.
4. What do these details tell you about the writer’s assumptions about the knowledge and experience of readers?
He told this story of under and overrepresentation by tying together various examples and facts. To transition between these points he inserted relevant maxims, some posing questions to the audience in attempt of summoning an opinion or stance from the reader themselves. He also littered the article with sarcasm and colloquial speech, conveying an almost mocking tone, contrasted with quantitative data and an array of names from science fields to the Oscar hosts. The casual speech was often used to highlight key points, and contrasted the informative tone used in support of the
Concerning the cohesiveness of an essay, Pyrczak (2008) avers that its Results segment should not only convey a study’s outcome in paragraphs that can each convey a particular component of its findings but it should also be arranged in a manner that provides an exclusive focus on the research’s hypothesis as well as supply its related statistics. While this author can commend the researcher’s inclusion of the coefficients of their instrumentations and the tables that demonstrate the study’s results (Lin et al., 2004), the Results section in this composition falls short of the previously listed expectations of what this segment should comprise. For this assayer has observed that though the 10 variables measured had been noted, the study’s authors had not expounded upon the constituents of their findings. The rating this investigator gives the coherency of this paper is ‘2’.
* This phenomenon is best referred to as a “cumulative collaboration of evidence” (Pepper, 1961, p. 49).
is made through his use of punctuation, word choice, figurative language, tone, and sentence structure.
Identify the author’s use of the three elements: experiment, correlation, and speculation to support assertions.
With each English class, we skimmed through the most difficult of word searches, hoping to locate the perfect words for our numerous ex-de-texte’s. Not only did we find an economy of words which captured the essence of our thoughts, but we also delved into the word searches of literature, dissecting its themes and characters up, down, forwards, backwards, diagonally . . . you name it. By searching for quotes that revealed the hidden meaning of the author, we discovered the letters and meanings that connect the fictitious literary world with our reality.
The techniques authors adopt are important because they contribute to the writing style. Throughout most of the book, I am able to comprehend the language easily. Although I did encounter medical and scientific terms that I had to confirm the meaning of. It seems as though Crosby tends to get carried away with the usage of statistics when he gets the chance. Constantly supplying numbers doesn’t give the reader enough time to digest the information. Not only that, but I found myself
There are many different ways to shed light on a problem that an author is writing about.
c . Criticism and enrichment of many experts , among others, Morgan ( 1915) , Fisher (1930 ) , Dobzhansky ( 1937) , Goldschmidt (1940 ) and Mayr (1942 ) .
With the moral left unknown so is the message. What is Pushkin main idea for this story? What did want to accomplish out of it? Some
State the key features each author uses to convey to the reader (in similar/different ways)