Sunday, April 24, 2011

Trans Book Reviews For Students

By Brittney Tucker


Trans book reviews is more complicated in comparison to traditional book reviews. The practice of translating a book from one language to another or one form to another is a challenging work which requires one to ensure the meaning is retained as it was intended. But the main task of considering the literature and how it relates to the theme must remain the focal point.

To be able to review a text meaningfully, you need a good understanding of the contents, a fact which requires sufficient reading of its content. It would be advantageous to have some understanding of the initial version to be better placed to determine if any changes in meaning are as a result of translation. This is because meanings of words are prone to change according to different contexts which may result in different meaning.

Some of the limitations one may encounter in the process of translating one document from a language to another is the lack of appropriate equivalent terminology which would bring the intended meaning in the exact impression and expression. Languages reflect a lot of what we do and where we live and are in most instances closely related to geographical location.

People who practice pastoral lifestyles will tend to have a language which is rich in terminologies relating to their culture and lifestyle while fishing communities may less vocabulary in this field but have wider vocabulary in matters water and fishing. Likewise those engaged in crop farming will be able to identify a lot of plants when hunters would have their language leaning towards their main economic activities.

If you have to assess whether Trans book reviews are effective or not then you would need to do some comparison between the languages and lifestyles. A joke that causes amusement in one language or among a certain people may not produce a similar effect in another language. This may be the case even if there were exact translations or words with exact meaning.

To take political satire as an example, the emulation and mimicking of one character will cause excitement among people who know the person being emulated while people who do not know that character will find nothing funny in the whole exercise.

In a situation where one has to do Trans book reviews, it may be appropriate to establish what similar exercise will produce on the original work or language. It is at that point that it may be possible to judge how the book performs in relation to the theme and objective the author set achieve.

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