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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 86 avhandlingar innehållade orden translation history.

  1. 1. Den torgförda biologin. Studier i populärvetenskapens problem och tematik : Biology in the agora. Studies on problems and themes in popular science

    Författare :Kaj Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; popular science; popular knowledge; popular biology; popularisation; Ludwik Fleck; history of science; history of biology; thought collective; thought style;

    Sammanfattning : The chief aim in this work is to demonstrate the fruitfulness of Ludwik Fleck’s philosophy of science for stimulating a number of new viewpoints in the study of popular science and popularisation from the vantage point of history of ideas and science. Taking its point of departure in the question, ”What is popular science?”, the present work articulates a comprehensive theoretical framework for addressing problems regarding the place of popular science and its multiple functions, as well as necessary preconditions needed for popularisation. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912

    Författare :John Hennessey; Hans Hägerdal; Alexis Dudden; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; global trans-imperial culture; association; assimilation; Hokkaido; Taiwan; expositions; Japanese colonialism; Japanese Empire; colonial history; colonial administration; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : Criticizing one-empire approaches, calls to apply much-needed transnational perspectives and methodologies to colonial history have recently emerged. This groundbreaking scholarship has already revealed that the competition between different European empires after 1850 has typically been overemphasized; in fact, a transnational perspective reveals extensive cooperation between the “great powers” of the age, along with myriad examples of exchanges and transfers of colonial knowledge. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Compilation and Translation : Johannes Widekindi and the Origins of his Work on a Swedish-Russian War

    Författare :Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich; Latin; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johannes Widekindi; historiography; Neo-Latin; compilation; translation; Swedish-Russian relations;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the dissertation is to trace the working process of Johannes Widekindi (ca 1620–1678), Swedish historiographer of the Realm, when writing his bilingual history of the Swedish military actions in Russia in 1609–1617, published in 1671 in Swedish as Thet Swenska i Ryssland tijo åhrs Krijgz-Historie and in 1672 in Latin as Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis.Chapter 1 of the dissertation consists of an overview of the Latin historiography during the Swedish Great Power period, together with a sketch of Widekindi’s biography and an overview of his works. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Between Old and New Rome : Armenian and Bulgarian Contacts with the Papacy around 1204

    Författare :Jonas Thungren Lindbärg; Helena Bodin; Linn Holmberg; Alexander Beihammer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bulgaria; Cilician Armenia; Cultural Semiotics; Cumans; Empire; Ethnicity; Frontier; Innocent III; Rome; Symbolic Power; The Byzantine Commonwealth; The Fourth Crusade; The Latin East; Vlachs; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine the use of symbolic power at the establishment of the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Cilician kingdom of Armenia, and to further explore and discuss problems of language, translation, ethnography, legitimacy, culture and distinctions between “East” and “West” through these cases. Despite their geographical distance and diverse histories, these regions are united through a past of Byzantine domination and by their entering into unions with the Roman Papacy at this time. LÄS MER

  7. 5. -ein allzu weites Feld? : zu Übersertzungstheorie und Übersetzungspraxis anhand der Kulturspezifika in fünf  Übersetzungen des Romans "Ein weites Feld" von Günter Grass

    Författare :Pernilla Rosell Steuer; Helmut Müssener; Per Øhrgaard; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Translation; culture; culture-specific words; the Foreign; translation theory; translation practice; literary translation; readership; translation methods; translation strategies; German history; Günter Grass;

    Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates literary translation from a cultural perspective by comparing the translation of culture-specific words and concepts in five different translations of the novel Ein weites Feld by Günter Grass. The translations were chosen to represent three ‘small’ (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian) and two ‘large’ (American English, French) languages and cultures, in order to find out whether these categories are characterized by different ‘foreignizing’ or ‘domesticating’ translation methods. LÄS MER