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Starting To Work The California Garden In Winter, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

French Kissing The Earth, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Atlantic Practices: Minding The Gap Between Literature And History, Elizabeth Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

No abstract provided.

The Intricacies Of Translation Memory Tools: With Particular Reference To Arabic-English Translation, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat

Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT

Translation Memory (TM) technology has been enjoying a good deal of popularity among translation theorists and practitioners since it came onto the market in the 1990s. A theoretical framework for TM vis-à-vis Machine Translation (MT) is first discussed. The paper then examines the applicability of a TM tool, namely Translator’s Workbench (TWB), to Arabic, and the ensuing problems as illustrated by the translation output of ten postgraduate translation students at Al-Quds University for the academic year 2012/2013. The paper reveals that beyond the translation problems with which translation is usually replete, particularly between languages of little cultural and linguistic affinity, …

John Marrant Blows The French Horn: Print, Performance, And Publics In Early African American Literature, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

No abstract provided.

Fear Of Formalism: Kant, Twain, And Cultural Studies In American Literature, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

No abstract provided.

The Semiotics Of Third Language In Arabic-English Translation, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat

Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT

The present paper explores how a third language is dealt with in the translation from Arabic into English, illustrated with al-Qamar il-Murabaʻ: Qiṣaṣ Ghrāibyia by Syrian writer Ghada as-Samman (1994), translated by Issa Boullata (1998) as ʻThe Square Moon: Supernatural Talesʼ (SMST). The paper adopts particularized a theoretical praxis approach. The paper argues that the third language does not occur in a vacuum, but within the boundaries of discourse with an eye to the ideology inscribed in the language we produce, viz. enhancing feministic, narcissistic and nihilistic tendencies by the Source Language (SL) author. The paper shows that the wheels …

Analysis Of Technical ʻFoul-Upsʼ: With Particular Reference To Arabic-English Subtitling, Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh Mat

Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh MAT

A cost-effective solution in intercultural communication has been subtitling from English into Arabic for the past few decades. Subtitling stands as one of the most and oldest translation practices in the Arab World. However, the practice is done with blithe disregard for the technical dimension (e.g. space, segmentation, colour, synch etc) and polysemiotic channels (e.g. dialogue, music, picture etc). Results show ʻtwo-bitʼ technical aspect of subtitling; thus the strategies employed by film subtitle translators are questionable. Therefore, the paper argues that subtitling/translation strategies should be sought within the ambit of technical dimension of subtitling.

Delicate Beauty Goes Out: "Adam Bede's" Transgressive Heroines, Lori Lefkovitz

Lori Lefkovitz

No abstract provided.

The Necessity Of The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Lucas B. Mckaig

Lucas B McKaig

Currently there is no comprehensive federal legislation in the United States protecting LGBT Employees. The Employment Non-Discrimination act would rectify this by making sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes.

George Eliot's Counterpublics, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

This talk works through some of the different ways that George Eliot complicates dominant Victorian conceptions of community and belonging through her varied narrative representations of intimacy and affect. I will begin with a brief discussion of how intimacy and affect operate in relation to nineteenth-century realism; then I will explore some of the ways in which the Victorian ideal of an imagined sympathetic community works as an aspirational Victorian narrative of intimate belonging, and how in Eliot’s hands this ideal community works as a potential counter-narrative of intimacy, making space for less-conventional intimacies, like the one she shared with …

"Coyotes At The Mall" (Reading From Cabin Fever), Tom Montgomery Fate

Tom Montgomery Fate

No abstract provided.

Myriad Mirrors: Doppelgangers And Doubling In The Vampire Diaries, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman

Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Mirroring is of fundamental importance in Gothic literature and filmic texts generally, and is a prevalent trope in the CW network teen drama, The Vampire Diaries. The television series is itself a “doubling” in that it is an adaptation of a series of novels by L.J. Smith, creating a situation wherein the same central characters inhabit the parallel townships of the novels’ Fells Church and television’s Mystic Falls, and thus have histories which are, at times, contradictory. The television version also explicitly explores the concept of the doppelganger, and thus the idea of reflection, even as it manipulates the historical …

Her Eyes, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Some Thoughts On The Compilation Of Dictionaries For Foreign Learners Of Chinese, Gang Zhao

Gang Zhao

No abstract provided.

Uncovering The Voice Of Asian American Youth In Young Adult Novels --Korean American Experiences, Ying-Bei Wang

Ying-bei Wang

In America, Young Adult fiction is a popular literature genre embraced by readers of all age. Its contents not only contain an educational purpose for its predominantly young readers but also offer a critical view of social and cultural issues. Most young adult novels narrate stories from the perspective of young protagonists, who are believed to be more candid and more likely to reveal their true experiences and thoughts. The young protagonists also feature a youthful innocence that could function as a powerful voice to criticize the corrupted adult world. This project seeks to understand the Asian American experiences by …

Uncovering The Voice Of Asian American Youth In Young Adult Novels#11;--Korean American Experiences, Ying-Bei Wang

Ying-bei Wang

In America, Young Adult fiction is a popular literature genre embraced by readers of all age. Its contents not only contain an educational purpose for its predominantly young readers but also offer a critical view of social and cultural issues. Most young adult novels narrate stories from the perspective of young protagonists, who are believed to be more candid and more likely to reveal their true experiences and thoughts. The young protagonists also feature a youthful innocence that could function as a powerful voice to criticize the corrupted adult world. This project seeks to understand the Asian American experiences by …

The Years: Mapping A Genre, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

The Kairotic Moment: Pragmatic Revision Of Basic Writing Instruction At Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

This profile articulates the authors’ response to a statewide mandate to eliminate “remedial” writing instruction at four-year public universities, including their own. The profile describes the difficulties the authors faced in responding to this initiative, given the context of their regional comprehensive university and its specific challenges with retention and student success, and discusses their revision of the university’s writing program. The changes the authors made—eliminating a non-credit basic writing course and creating a credit-bearing basic writing course; instituting guided self-placement; and developing a flexible, WPA-outcomes based writing curriculum—have led to improved satisfaction, success, and retention rates among basic writers …

Business Writing, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Economics, Technology, And The Management Of Technical Communication, Stevens Amidon, Stuart Blythe

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Change Agents Or Followers: Analyzing Genres In The Business Writing Classroom, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Writing The Learning Organization, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Preparing Students To Manage Technical Communication Projects In A Global Community, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Dialogues Of A Discipline [Two Book Reviews], Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Slouching Toward Assessment: One Department's Journey Toward Accountability Bliss, Stevens Amidon, Hardin Aasand, Debra Huffman

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

A reflection on the department's efforts at improving the assessment of student learning outcomes.

When The Writer Becomes The Boss: What Practitioners Can Tell Us About Developing Curricula In Writing Program Management, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

The Learning History: An Investigation Into An Emerging Genre, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

Wrestling With Proteus: Tales Of Communication Managers In A Changing Economy, Stevens Amidon, Stuart Blythe

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.

The Learning History: Analyzing An Emerging Genre, Stevens Amidon

Stevens R. Amidon Dr.

No abstract provided.