European colonization in the course of the 17th to 19th centuries brought into life a traditional situation for the emergence of new language varieties named pidgins and creoles from trade between the native dwellers and aliens. The term ‘pidgin’ is possibly a distortion of English relations and the term ‘creole’ was applied in reference to […]
Translating of children’s literature poses particular issues owing to number of special characteristics of children’s books and qualities of child audience. The situation that children’s book tends to have a peripheral position in cultures and disadvance from not enough of prestige makes it possible to manipulate materials translated for children in different ways to make […]
Nationwide lingua institutions had their beginning in the post-Medieval times, when the pioneer such institution, the Italian Accademia della Crusca, was established in 1584. The Academie Francaise was opened in 1635, and the Real Academia Espanola in 1713, establishing a tradition which has gone on into the 21st century; the Polish Language Academy was, for […]
Translation is the activity that renders knowledge, whether literary or scientific, a mobile nature of culture. Such mobility, in turn, is what gives human understanding a deep and lasting influence beyond the borders of its natural setting. Discussions related to the theory, practice, and history of translation have preferred to pay attention on literary […]
Translation memory (TM) technologies, the most widely used toolkits in the localization of digital information at HQ-translate agency, enable the proofreading and international adaptation of electronic content (e-content) for local markets. The idea behind TM systems is to store in a computer system the original e-content and the translation that has been produced by human […]