This thesis tries to answer the question of what constitutes ‘good’ translation in order to help translators (and translator students) gain insight into the various academic perspectives on the...Show moreThis thesis tries to answer the question of what constitutes ‘good’ translation in order to help translators (and translator students) gain insight into the various academic perspectives on the nature of a high-quality translated text. It seeks this answer by way of examining the work of renowned translation theorists from across the five perspectives found in Translation Studies. The distinction and definitions of these perspectives are made by Hurtado Albir (1994) in his work Perspectivas de los Estudios Sobre Traducción. This thesis uses Ordóñez-Lopez’ (2008) English translations of these definitions. The five perspectives are named as follows: the Philosophical and Hermeneutic perspective, the Textual perspective, the Communicative and Socio-cultural perspective, the Cognitive perspective,and the Linguistic perspective. Each perspective approaches the field of Translation Studies in a different manner, which is the cause for many different interpretations and idea regarding translation practice. As this thesis seeks to unite opinions from across the academic field, and a number of perspectives only deal with written texts, multimodal translation will only lightly be touched upon. It will be shown that no more than three aspects are shared by more than one perspective, and none are shared by all.Show less
In this thesis, I discuss the influence of mutual perspectives of South and North Koreans from 1994 till 2015 on the reunification process. This will be done by discussing the perspective of the...Show moreIn this thesis, I discuss the influence of mutual perspectives of South and North Koreans from 1994 till 2015 on the reunification process. This will be done by discussing the perspective of the South Korean people on North Korea, the North Korean people living in North Korea and the North Korean settlers in South Korea. After that I discuss the perspective of the North Korean settlers on South Korea and the South Korean people. This will be followed by a discussion of the problems of the North Korean settlers in South Korean society, how and till what extent they are related to the perspectives of South and North Koreans, and their implications for reunification.Show less
