I colori nelle espressioni idiomatiche inglesi ed italiane

The purpose of this work is to analyse the figurative and metaphorical meanings of colours in English and Italian, focusing on the analysis and comparison of colour idioms in these two languages and cultures. The study starting point is the assumption that language and culture are inextricably related: they influence and modify each other, and both contribute to shaping our world-view. English and Italian colour idioms will be presented, compared and contrasted. Each colour is introduced by its figurative meaning in the two cultures. It is also shown whether and how the symbolic meaning is reflected in idiomatic language. The approach to English and Italian idioms is contrastive in order to show cases of direct correspondence (i.e. same colour, same meaning), partial correspondence (i.e. different colour or different idiom but same meaning) and cases peculiar to each language that lack of an idiomatic equivalent in the other language.

The third language in English guidebooks and its translation into Spanish

[EN] This article focuses on a specific feature found in tourist guidebooks –the recurrent use of foreign expressions or “third language”. It presents the findings of a comparative analysis of a parallel corpus made up of twenty guidebooks: ten guidebooks originally written in English and their corresponding translated versions in Spanish, describing different countries and cities (all of them published by Lonely Planet), focusing on those chapters in which the writer includes practical information. The purpose of the study is to analyze the use of the third language in the English and Spanish versions and to determine and identify the translation strategies used by the translators to transfer these linguistic elements from one language to the other.

The Tooti nameh; or, Tales of a parrot, in the Persian language with an English translation.

English and persion on opposite pages, each text having its own paging (p. 9-170)

The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation, and notes, critical and explanatory. To which are added chronological, topographical, and glossarial indices ; a short grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language...&c.

Anglo Saxon and English in parallel columns.

An abridgment of Sacred history; written in the Latin language. With an interlined English translation; as closely literal as the idiomatic difference of the languages will allow,

Mode of access: Internet.

A specimen of Persian poetry, or, Odes of Hafez [microform] : with an English translation and paraphrase, chiefly from the Specimen poeseos Persicae of Baron Revizky ... with historical and grammatical illustrations and a complete analysis, for the assistance of those who wish to study the Persian language /

First ed.: London, 1774.

Tūtī-namāh. The Tooti nameh, or Tales of a parrot: in the Persian language, with and English translation.

Translation by Francis Gladwin. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.

The brothers Ricci's opera Crispino e la comare = The cobbler and the fairy : containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs.

The principal airs are unaccompanied.

Il barbiere di Siviglia = The barber of Seville : opera buffa in two acts ; containing the Italian text, with an English translation and the music of all the principal airs /

Libretto by Sterbini.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni : containing the Italian text with an English translation and the music of all the principal airs.

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Mozart's opera Il flauto magico. Containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the music of all the principal airs.

The text is by Schikaneder and Giesecke.

A study of culture specific items and translation strategies in Bahram Beyza'i’s play “Marionettes”

L'objectif de cette recherche est de fournir une analyse de la pièce de théâtre perse ''Marionettes'' de Bahrām Beyzā'ī (1963) ainsi que de sa traduction anglaise (1989) afin de comparer et de mettre en contraste les traits propres à la culture «Culture-specific items» (CSI) et des stratégies de traduction. Les formes problématiques pertinentes des différences culturelles seront étudiées et les procédés suggérés par Newmark (1988) seront examinés afin de déterminer dans quelle mesure ils sont pertinents dans la traduction des différences culturelles du perse à l'anglais. La pièce a été traduite par une équipe de traducteurs: Sujata G.Bhatt, Jacquelin Hoats, Imran A. Nyazee et Kamiar K. Oskouee. (Parvin Loloi et Glyn Pursglove 2002:66). Les oeuvres théâtrales de Beyzā'ī sont basées sur les traditions ainsi que sur le folklore iranien. L'auteur aborde la réalité sous une perspective philosophique. « (Un point de vue) enveloppé dans une cape de comparaisons complexes à tel point que nombre des personnages de son oeuvre errent entre des symboles de la mythologie et de l’histoire, ou sociaux» (M.R. Ghanoonparvar, John Green 1989, p.xxii notre traduction). La classification des éléments culturels de Newmark (1988) va comme suit: «Écologie, culture matérielle, culture sociale, organisations, coutumes / moeurs, gestes et habitudes» (Newmark 1988:95). La recherche mettra l’accent sur les procédés suggérés pour traduire les CSI ainsi que sur les stratégies de traduction selon Newmark. Ces procédés comprennent : «traduction littérale, transfert, équivalent culturel, neutralisation, équivalent fonctionnel, équivalent descriptif, synonymie, par le biais de la traduction, transposition, modulation, traduction reconnue, étiquette de traduction, compensation, analyse componentielle, réduction et expansion, paraphraser, distique, notes, additions, gloses» (Newmark 1988:81-93). L'objectif ici est de déterminer si les procédés suggérés sont applicables à la traduction des CSIs du perse à l'anglais, et quels sont les procédés les plus fréquemment utilisés par les traducteurs.