Translating a Human Rights Pedagogical Manual trough Memes of Translation

Diplôme Master Translating a Human Rights Pedagogical Manual trough Memes of Translation eng 2011 author Williams Joshua 645671 director Hewson Lance 134539 Whenever translators carry out a specific assignment, they are often confronted with deadlines and time constraints that force them to resolve and troubleshoot issues at hand with little time to focus on the motivations and theory behind their choices. Such was the case for the text upon which this thesis is based : 100 et 1 mots pour l'éducation aux droits de l'homme. The basis for exploring and analyzing these choices is meme theory. According to this theory, which Andrew Chesterman has explored extensively, memes refer to ideas that metamorphosize into a concept through general usage and application, much like a gene in a gene pool. Furthermore, these memes are classified into five categories of supermemes. On of the aims of this thesis is to explore these supermemes as well as their usefulness and limitations through concrete examples from 100 et 1 mots. Moreover, various syntactic, semantic and pragmatic strategies will be explained and demonstrated through examples from the aforementioned text. This section will note merely consist of a list of strategies followed by examples but also an explanation on the implications of these examples with respect to a French-English translation assignment. Dewey 418.02 Maître universitaire en traduction mention traduction spécialisée 111 Département de traduction 91 false 698 Unité de traduction anglaise 34d045e8-5121-4ad5-884c-fdf5eb41d7d2 Master thesis Public VersionFinale.pdf 638119 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traduction

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