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Turning Memories Into Memoirs: The Australian Experience, Rae Luckie
Turning Memories Into Memoirs: The Australian Experience, Rae Luckie
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Eighteen months ago I began to teach a hybrid course of "creative writing/writing life stories" through Kiama Adult & Community Education. I searched the Internet for resources and happened upon a web page "Turning Memories into Memoirs" which promoted lifewriting and had a network of teaching affiliates. The author of the program, Denis Ledoux, has been teaching lifewriting since 1988. His partner and publisher, artist Martha Blowen and I began an e-mail correspondence of gigantic proportions. I lived through their severe ice storm, saw the Arkansas massacre through her eyes, learnt about home schooling and life in Maine. We've e-mailed …
Film Dialogue Translation And The Intonation Unit : Towards Equivalent Effect In English And Chinese, Jian Li
Film Dialogue Translation And The Intonation Unit : Towards Equivalent Effect In English And Chinese, Jian Li
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis proposes a new approach to film dialogue translation (FDT) with special reference to the translation process and quality of English-to-Chinese dubbing. In response to the persistent translation failures that led to widespread criticism of dubbed films and TV plays in China for their artificial 'translation talk', this study provides a pragmatic methodology derived from the integration of the theories and analytical systems of information flow in the tradition of the functionalist approach to speech and writing with the relevant theoretical and empirical findings from TS and other related branches of linguistics. It has developed and validated a translation …