Translating Politeness A Comparative Analysis of Dialogue in Yakuza 0

A Study on the Translation Strategies of Culture-Loaded Words in the Subtitles of Inside Out

In an environment where there is much interaction between different cultures around the world, animation films are becoming key vehicles for cross-cultural communication among all countries and territories. Cinematic subtitle's linguistic accuracy greatly affects how a culture is spread out, people's entertainment expe...

‘Actually’ in translation: The case of English and Slovak

This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis dra...

The Use of Pragmatic Markers in the Chinese Play Thunderstorm and Their Translation into Russian

Cao Yu’s drama “Thunderstorm” is an outstanding work of great significance in Chinese literature and the history of Chinese theater. Dramatic works extensively feature colloquial vocabulary and traits of oral discourse. In particular, the stylized speech of characters actively employs various pragmatic markers (PMs). P...

An Analysis Of Negative Politeness Strategies In Workplace Interaction In The Film Bombshell

EXPRESSING GRATITUDE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SPEECH ACT OF THANKING

This study offers a contrastive analysis of the speech act of thanking in English and Vietnamese, examining it on three planes: semantic content, pragmatic strategy, and cultural motivation. Thanking is treated as an expressive speech act in the sense of Austin (1962) and Searle (1975), through which the speaker convey...

Translation of connotations in literary texts: strategies in overcoming potential difficulties

This research examines the translation of connotative meanings from Turkish to English by employing a semiotic and translation-focused analysis of Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s short story Dört Zait. Utilizing Saussure’s concept of the linguistic sign and subsequent advancements in semiotics by Barthes and Hjelmslev, the rese...