Category: Discourse Analysis
The challenging issues of Arabic Software Localization
When software products are developed for distribution in a locale, technical issues affecting software development and the subsequent localisation process must be considered. Localisation is not a matter of transferring technology to a target market. It is a cultural conventions that must be handled in computer programmes to give its products
Conversation: A Human Interaction via Language
Conversational Analysis examines and analysing what was said, why it was said and how it was said. A key concepts in conversational analysis is the idea of "sequential organization," which explores how actions and responses are structured in conversation. This involves studying the way speakers take turns, initiate topics, respond to each other, and manage
Connecting Brands and Worldwide Audiences
A content could be translated to educate, engage, and, ultimately, share knowledge with a community of people, be it for business use, social or research—e.g., blog posts, white papers, videos, pod casts, etc.— Translating a content is attuning content to a specific audience that speaks a different language or is located in another geographical area.
Translation, theory and Practice
Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the [more…]
Grammatical Gender and the Narrative Space
Space, Time, characters, events, causation and relationships are things that we expect to encounter in the study of the physical world, but the work of [more…]