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2024-03-28T23:14:03ZThematicity and Informational Focus in English to Mandarin Translation: Maintaining Textual Equivalence
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/127957
Title: Thematicity and Informational Focus in English to Mandarin Translation: Maintaining Textual Equivalence
Author: Teng, Wei
Abstract: This study is concerned with what Systemic Functional Linguistics (e.g. Halliday 1994) terms the systems of Theme/Rheme and Given/New. It provides a small scale exploration of the degree to which equivalence i n these two systems is maintained under English to Mandarin translation. As well, it pays close attention to the two English structures known as Theme Predication and T heme Identification due to their associat ion with the expression of exclusiveness . This expression attributes the conflation of Theme with New rather than with Given, th e usual state of affairs. As a consequence, they pose certain challenges for Mandarin to English translation. T his paper offers the following key findings. F irstly, thematic a nd informational equivalence is usually, but not universally maintained under English to Mandarin translation. S ome discussion is provided of why such breakdowns occasionally occur. S econdly, while Theme Predication and Theme Identification do pose some problems for translation, t he mechanisms employed by the translators to achieve the textual equivalence will be described, with discussion how they are both similar to and different from English original. S pecial attention paid to the expression of exclusi veness demonstrates t hat, while in English this expression is conveyed via particular word orderings, in Mandarin it is conveyed via the use of certain adverbs. Despite its necessity only of a limited nature, this study is expected to serve as the commence ment of researches on exploring the significance of textual meaning in translation, as well as on exploring other possible elements in Mandarin related to text structuring meaning.
Description: Coursework; This item is only available electronically.2005-01-01T00:00:00ZDas Barossadeutsche : Ursprung, Kennzeichen und Zugehörigkeit : Untersuchungen in einer deutschen Sprachinsel
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/126751
Title: Das Barossadeutsche : Ursprung, Kennzeichen und Zugehörigkeit : Untersuchungen in einer deutschen Sprachinsel
Author: Paul, Peter1965-01-01T00:00:00ZHysteria as strategy: Exploring hysteria and madness as strategy in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Alias Grace
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/121729
Title: Hysteria as strategy: Exploring hysteria and madness as strategy in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Alias Grace
Author: Streeter, Sarah
Abstract: In this thesis I will explore the literary tradition of women and hysteria as a smaller facet of the larger cultural history that associates women with madness. I will explore how women have come to embody hysteria and why, as Elaine Showalter asserts, hysteria has been labeled a 'female malady' (4).With reference to Freud's Dora and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, this thesis will establish the literary tradition that links women and madness and will map a feminist critique, from the 1970s onwards, of that tradition. It will then examine how Margaret Atwood, as a contemporary woman writer, engages with the theme of women and madness in her novels The Edible Woman and Alias Grace. Juliet Mitchell has argued that hysteria is a woman writer's 'masculine language', a strategic means through which a woman can communicate female experience from within a patriarchal discourse ('Femininity, Narrative and Psychoanalysis' 427). This thesis will examine to what extent agency and expression can be gained through the strategic employment of hysteria and madness in Atwood's novels. In The Edible Woman Atwood enlists the Freudian model of hysteria, whereby repression is displaced into physical symptoms, to free her protagonist from a dangerous marriage. The protagonist does not actively engage with the malady, however. On the contrary, Marian, an inherently passive character, relies upon her illness to physically manifest the unspoken protests of her repressed self to ultimately free herself from the engagement. In contrast, Grace, the protagonist of Alias Grace, actively manipulates the association of women with madness to secure her agency. Relying on nineteenth-century attitudes that more readily link a woman with madness than murder, Grace manipulates the tradition that has silenced and pathologised women to provide her with expression and freedom.2008-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Femme Fatale: theorising female power and subjectivity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Robber Bride
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/121728
Title: The Femme Fatale: theorising female power and subjectivity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Robber Bride
Author: Kulperger, Shelley1998-01-01T00:00:00Z