Translatology: The Study of Translation

Scholar, Gloria Anzaldúa, in her narrative essay, “How To Tame A Wild Tongue’, speaks her many experiences on being pressured on what language to use. She then expresses how the discrimination made her to realize the ugly truth--that people reject languages that aren’t their own. She adopts logos, ethos and pathos in order to appeal toward her audience who is anyone who is not bilingual. One of the perspectives she takes on in her piece clearly expresses the relationship between language and identity and how it creates a conflict between her and the world.

The issue of translatability: if every language had a totally unmistakable reality encoded inside of it, how could a work be made an interpretation of starting with one language then onto the next? Yet, abstract works, direction manuals et cetera are frequently interpreted and correspondence in such manner is conceivable, as well as happens

Yet the struggle of identities continues, the struggle of borders is still our reality. While discussing the rhetorical analysis of this essay I had an epiphany. The purpose of this essay is what troubled me most. Was she just writing to write or was she just a creative writer? After one hour of discussion it hit me, the feelings that me and my class mates where encountering was it. Nearly all of us came into the discussion annoyed and impatient. We were unwilling to analyze the essay because we where enraged by the fact that it was not completely in English. All but a few who understood Spanish where irritated because to the paper was not converted to what we wanted it to be. How dare she write a paper and expect us to read in when it isn’t in perfect complete English. I then discovered that all of our anger and annoyances were her point or purpose. She wanted to make us feel how she felt. Every day she was criticized on how she spoke and wrote. One side wanted only English while the other only wanted Spanish. When in reality she knew both therefore wanted to use both intermittently. Every time she was corrected she was annoyed and discourage. As each and every one of us read the paper we were all annoyed by the fact that it wasn’t in the language we wanted. We thought that because

In addition, I will explore the concept of transnationalism and Disaporas using John’s experiences and his use of social capital in his migration experience. Theories of migration do not necessarily relate to all migration experiences, as migration is shaped individually through historical and social contexts. John’s migration incorporates a blend of lifestyle migration and economic migration. John’s father was migrating to Australia for work purposes; however John chose to migrate with his family to be close to them and also to explore a different lifestyle to that in England. “I didn’t have much interest in life in England, the lifestyle didn’t appeal to me and I hated how society was very class based” (Geare, 2015).

agitator of the C19, and his main aim was to secure the repeal of the

“Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language” offers a view into the life an immigrant family and the journey of learning a new language. Eva Hoffman, narrator and main character, provides an inside of her life as a result of her family migration from Poland to Canada. Throughout this telling autobiography, Hoffman experiences emotions from adolescent to adulthood. The incidents lived by this family are relatable to immigrants all around the world. As an individual coming from an immigrant family and teaching immigrant students, I found this book extremely genuine to the feelings of hope, disillusion, denial, acceptance, and many other stages by which individual that left their homeland go through.

Brian Friel's "Translations" 'Translations', by Brian Friel, presents us with an idyllic rural community turned on its head as the result of the recording and translation of place names into English; an action which is at first sight purely administrative. In Act 1 of the play, Friel brings together the inhabitants of this quaint Irish village in what can only be described as a gathering of minds - minds which study the classics, yet minds which study dead languages. In the same way, while this community is rich in culture and togetherness, it is also trapped in what is later described as a "contour which no longer matches the landscape of…fact". Thus, in expressing his ambivalence, Friel presents the reader with a

For quite some time, I have been pulled towards theories of the in-between, the marginal, and the liminal. As practitioner, researcher, translator and writer, I exist in the blurring of disciplinary boundaries.

As a condition, it is directly linked to the process through which it is made and remade (20). Another definition of diaspora, by Brown, describes it as a network of nodes and the translation between them. These nodes are referred to as places and are used as points of comparison. Brown’s definition of a place is not simply as a geographical location but also a combination of class and social mobility (205).

Border thinking/awareness is another term in the discussion of IDWs migratory experiences. Regarding the importance of border thinking/awareness, Mignolo and Tlostanova assert that it denotes the cognizance of double consciousness. As there will be no border thinking without double consciousness,

In this paper I will answer six question about the course I’m taking “intercultural studies” and what I have learned during these weeks based on my own words and knowledge. I have learned new things that are related to the culture such as observable, non-observable, metaphor and many others, in terms of definition and examples in real life.

Ayyildiz. Nilay ( 2016). “On the Way of Hybridity: Naipaul’s “One out of many”. International Journal of Language and Literature June 2016, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 107-111 ISSN: 2334-234X (Print), 2334-2358 (Online) Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development. Retrieved from < ijll-net.com/journals/ijll/Vol_4_No_1_June_2016/11.pdf>

Yer bum’s oot the windae. Gonnae no’ dae that! If you don 't know what this means and you are an English speaker, what appears to be the problem? The problem is that the Scottish variation or dialect of English is not the same as the American, the Irish, the British, the Australian, etc. In case you were wondering, in American English, the phrase says, "You 're talking rubbish. I 'm not going to do that!" This is more than just a local dialect (Scotland had a number of those, too: Aberdonian, Glaswegian, Edinburgh, Fife, Perthshire, Dundonian), this is an example of an entirely different variation of English.

#126. At www.tilburguniversity.edu Blommaert, J. (2005) Bourdieu the Ethnographer – The ethnographic Grounding of Habitus and Voice. The Translator # 11 (2) 219-236. At www.academia.edu Borba, R. (2015) How an individual becomes a subject.

According to Mona Baker, translation is a profession, like other industries. It is not just because you have a gift so that you can be a translator but also because you have to put a lot of effort to make you become a good translator. They have purposes for their work, which is to produce the best work as possible as they could, like other professionals. Skopos theory is a concept that focuses on purpose in the field of translation studies. It was introduced by Hans Vermeer, a German linguist, in the 1970s. Skopos is a Greek technical term for the purpose, aim, goal or objective of the action of translating. Vermeer sees language is a part of a culture and believes that both source text and target text are important in order to produce a