Holistisches Modell der kontrastiven Textologie in der wissenschaftlichen Translationslehre

The study illustrates how the Holistic Model of Contrastive Textology, which has been previously developed, presented and applied to various texts of corporate communication in order to amplify the methodological instruments of the contrastive textology, can be applied to courses in professional translation (German-Italian/Italian-German). The central question of the study is how the Model can be used to sensibilize students for a multidimensional comparison of authentic texts in different languages and a comparison between source and target texts

Analysis Framework for Translation of Maritime Legal Documents

Maritime activity around the globe currently generates a great amount of translation work, especially from English into other languages. This paper focuses on the analysis of the translation process in maritime legal and administrative documents. The study first establishes which maritime documents are most often translated and a tool is then developed to analyse such documents in detail, based on the concept of textual genre. Such analysis would help translators to better understand these highly specialised documents and thus contribute towards improving translation of the same

Learners' attitude towards learning through CD-ROM courseware : a case study of an organization.

The paper seeks to explore two factors associated with learners’ attitude toward learning through CD-ROM courseware: (1) learners’ characteristic; and (2) characteristics of CD-ROM courseware. Data were administered using an instrument custom designed for the study. The respondents were 150 employees of the selected organisation who had used any CD-ROM courseware in any of the organisation’s learning centres during a specified one-month period. Results show that: (1) the majority of respondents surveyed found to have favourable attitude toward the last CD-ROM courseware they had used; (2) learners’ attitude towards computers was found to be highly correlated with learners’ attitude towards CD-ROM courseware; and (3) courseware characteristics of textology and immediate feedback were identified as two of the most highly correlated factors. In learning through CD-ROM courseware, learners’ characteristics such as learners’ attitude towards computers, their working experience and educational achievement need to be taken into consideration. In CD-ROM courseware development, characteristics such as textology and immediate feedback are important elements that facilitate positive attitude towards learning. This study is useful to CD-ROM courseware developers and training managers in developing a more appropriate training for learners

Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Sources in the Institute of Literature at BAS Repertorium Project (1994–2004)

Mixed-content miscellanies (very frequent in the Byzantine and mediaeval Slavic written heritage) are usually defined as collections of works with non-occupational, non-liturgical application, and texts in them are selected and arranged according to no identifiable principle. It is a “readable” type of miscellanies which were compiled mainly on the basis of the cognitive interests of compilers and readers. Just like the occupational ones, they also appeared to satisfy public needs but were intended for individual usage. My textological comparison had shown that mixed- content miscellanies often showed evidence of a stable content – some of them include the same constituent works in the same order, regardless that the manuscripts had no obvious genetic relationship. These correspondences were sufficiently numerous and distinctive that they could not be merely fortuitous, and the only sensible interpretation was that even when the operative organizational principle was not based on independently identifiable criteria, such as the church calendar, liturgical function, or thematic considerations, mixed-content miscellanies (or, at least, portions of their contents) nonetheless fell into types. In this respect, the apparent free selection and arrangement of texts in mixed-content miscellanies turns out to be illusory. The problem was – as the corpus of manuscripts that I and my colleagues needed to examine grew – our ability to keep track of the structure of each one, and to identify structural correspondences among manuscripts within the corpus, diminished. So, at the end of 1993 I addressed a letter to Prof. David Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh, PA) with a request to help me to solve the problem. He and my colleague Andrey Boyadzhiev (Sofia University) pointed out to me that computers are well suited to recording, processing, and analyzing large amounts of data, and to identifying patterns within the data, and their proposal was that we try to develop a computer system for description of manuscripts, for their analysis and of course, for searching the data. Our collaboration in this project is now ten years old, and our talk today presents an overview of that collaboration

Factors Associated with Learners' Attitute Towards Learning Through CD-ROM Courseware: A Case Study of Discovery Center, Binariang Berhad

The innovation in information technology, particularly computers, has enabled a new system to deliver educational, training and learning programs. The development of the programmed courseware is based upon learning theories and principles that have been applied in traditional learning environment. On the other hand, attitude has long been recognized as important prerequisite of learning. The problem here is whether the principles and theories applied in the development of Computer-Based Training coursewares facilitate favourable learning from learners' point of view. The main purpose of this research is to identify factors associated with learners' attitudes towards Computer-Based Training using CD-ROM Coursewares. Specifically, this research seeks to determine: (i) learners' attitudes towards learning through CD-ROM coursewares; (ii) the relationships between learners' characteristics and learners' attitude toward learning through CD-ROM courseware; and (iii) the relationships between courseware characteristics and learners' attitude towards learning through CD-ROM coursewares. The respondents were the employees of Binariang Berhad who had taken any CD-ROM courseware at the Discovery Centers of Binariang Berhad and went to any Discovery Center during 27th July to 22nd August 1998. The research instrument was a set of questionnaire