calque

This sense that change will always and inevitably characterize the outcome of any of the forms of transits that claim the name of translation, in its primary verbal sense or otherwise, underlies the theorized uncertainty apparent in a recent description of translation (offered by cultural studies scholars) as "the (im)possibility of meaningful commensuration." (22) And this assumption that whatever is carried over can never remain the same, or equivalent even (in a formally calqued way), indeed informs the readings of dislocations, realized in a variety of forms and media, that are offered in the papers below.

Instead, all synchronically nontransparent modifiers were excluded from the study (see above) and modifiers which are calqued from Latin yet semantically transparent were coded into their respective category, such as perceptual--colour for lat.

It may have been intended to be merely a topographic descriptor, but it has been interpreted as a descriptive toponym because today the headland bears the calqued (literally translated) name Steep Point.

The corpus also encompasses metric system units, which were widely assimilated, and occasionally calqued (libra < pound, pie < foot, pulgada < inch, yarda < yard).

TV texts are less prestigious than cinema texts, and thus their translation will easily present a higher number of traits calqued on the source text.

In this sense, it implies 'yellow river', which is close to the meaning of Huanghe River with the same meaning 'huang' ('yellow') and 'he' ('river') and is supposed to be a calqued word.

(38.) According to Yoshida 2000: 86-87 and 2009: 574, such Sogdian expressions are calqued on the Uygur formula ukus ukus koyul ayitu, lit.

Notwithstanding, some may constructions in Tasawaq may be calqued on Hausa, such as aaru may gaabi 'a strong man (lit.

Creole structures are calqued onto English words (pp.

Tom Shippey argues that Tolkien basically 'calqued' the Shire from Edwardian England, by which he means that the author of The Hobbit took bits and pieces from English culture and society and reconstituted them back together again translated into a creatively new form neither belonging fully to the real world nor to Middle-earth (115-116), in the same manner as "Mirkwood" is a calque from Old Norse, but is strictly speaking neither genuinely Old Norse nor Modern English.

Calqued from the German Kulturosophie or kulturosophisches Denken as used in the work of Slavists (Mjor mentions Igor Smirnov, Rainer Grubel, and Dirk Uffelmann [55]), this term denotes "a discourse on Russia and Russian culture, led by Russians themselves, which is not only descriptive but also axiological and based on dichotomies" (55-56).

Indeed, the expression "ordinary people," partly calqued on the French "ecritures ordinaires," is a somewhat awkward rendering that seeks to elide the determinism of class, but arguably reinforces a certain elitism in regard to the subjects Lyons studies.