. Translations into Old French from classical and late Latin texts can be divided, for the sake of descriptive taxonomy, into three large categories: translations and imitations of major classical literary models, translations of historical and...

Because of this particular history, in which European modernizing power met non-European societies, the subject of conversion has to be regarded as one of the most important in the anthropology of religion. †Rodney Needham (1972) has drawn...

1 In the broad sense, ‘translation’ refers to the process and result of transferring a text from the source language into the target language. 2 In the narrow sense, it refers to rendering a written text into another language as opposed to...

The concept of translation is a long-established one across many disciplines, with the distinctive anthropological contribution being an emphasis on the social nature of translation and on the many-layered nature of meaning. First, a common metaphor...

Translation is the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language (the "source text") and the production, in another language (the "target language"), of an equivalent text (the "target text," or "translation") that communicates the same...

Google Inc. planned to introduce a feature Wednesday that automatically translates Internet search requests and results in 12 languages, underscoring the rapidly growing company's ambitions outside the United States.The tools allow Google's users to enter search requests in their native languages and then choose to...

An Arabic language expert testified Monday that the FBI inaccurately translated some telephone intercepts of three suspected terrorism supporters, and said words that prosecutors say were code for violence have innocent alternative meanings.Translator Kamal Yunis was the first witness called by the defense in the...

The official Chinese translation of the final Harry Potter book won't be out for nearly three months, but eager fans have posted their own translations online.China's authorized publisher of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on Wednesday denounced the freelance translators and urged them to...

Israeli Harry Potter fans elbowed their way in for autographs and photos _ not with the author of the best-selling books, but with the Hebrew translator.More than 100 devotees of British writer J.K. Rowling's series about a young wizard sat and stood for an hour...

In the "Cultural Implication for Translation" by Kate James, the author describes the difficulty in translating text from one language to another. Part of the difficulty is translating words that have significance in one culture, but different or no meaning in another. Problems particularly arise when the two languages involved are dissimilar.