English Studies at NBU

List of Papers (Total 164)

MAPPING TRANSLATION HISTORY IN IRAN: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY OF JOURNAL ARTICLES

This study presents a scientometric analysis of scholarly publications on the history of translation in Iran, encompassing 370 articles published over a fifty-year period. Using VOSviewer for data visualization, the research identifies and maps eight key dimensions of the articles: journal titles, journal affiliation, publication date, publication place, historical periods...

A WOMAN IS NO MAN. A TRANSLATOR IS (NO) AUTHOR? RESISTING THE SHARED SUBORDINATION OF WOMEN AND TRANSLATORS THROUGH TRANSLATORHANDLING

This article proposes translatorhandling as a conceptual framework to theorize the intentional and strategic interventions made by feminist translators across textual, peritextual, and epitextual realms. It aims to expand the current understanding of translator visibility and reframe the role of the feminist translator within the evolving field of Feminist Translation Studies...

THE POLITICAL USES AND ABUSES OF 'GENDER' IN TRANSLATION

The paper attends to the relationship between translation, language, and politics, focusing on the appropriation of the key Anglo-American feminist term 'gender' into Bulgarian and its political uses and abuses in the recent context of the global crusade against the so called 'gender ideology'. It traces the troubled history of the term which was transplanted in the post...

INTEGRATING TRANSLATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTO TRANSLATOR TRAINING AS A PART OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY COURSE

Translation project management has become an indispensable part of the professional translation process with ever-increasing translation volume and complicated translation jobs. Given the essence of translation project management for the translation industry, translator training programs are also expected to equip their students with the relevant translation project management...

OBJECT INSERTION IN OLD ENGLISH VERBS OF THROWING: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

This study demonstrates for the first time that ballistic motion is part of Old English ditransitives, functioning in the Nominative-Accusative-Dative construction. A search for throw terms in A Thesaurus of Old English generates a pilot list of candidates, whose participation in ditransitives is verified through queries performed on the Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus. The...

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS IN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Motivated by the long-standing connection between Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this paper presents the first systematic literature review of the most frequent and productive linguistic features from SFL that are applied in practice by CDA analysts. Guided by PRISMA 2020 and following the SALSA framework, 4 databases (Wiley, Scopus...

CORRELATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN COLOMBIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

This research examined the correlation between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and English proficiency among 30 students aged 11-12 from a public school in Colombia. Participants were selected using simple random sampling, and data were collected through a non-experimental, quantitative, correlational design with a Pearson correlation analysis. EI was assessed using the Schutte Self...

VOCABULARY COMPOSITION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

In this paper we compare the distribution of four word categories in the lexical development of Bulgarian children with autism spectrum disorder to a normative Bulgarian sample. There is an emphasis on nominal/noun bias, which has been assumed to be a universal characteristic of language development. The data of Bulgarian children with autism presents a pattern similar to that of...

ENGLISH FOR IT COMMUNICATION - BOOK REVIEW

Book Details: Title: English for IT Communication Autors: Tony Myers, Jaime Buchanan Publisher: Routledge Number of pages: 220 pages Year of publication: 2025 ISBN: 9781032647500 (hardback), Also available as: 9781032647494 (paperback), 9781032647524 (eBook)

A PROPAEDEUTICS OF TRANSLATION STUDIES – BOOK REVIEW

Book Details: Title: A Propaedeutics of Translation Studies Autors: Klaudia Bednárová-Gibová, Miroslava Gavurová, Jonathan Gresty Publisher: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove vo Vydavateľstve Prešovskej univerzity Number of pages: 194 pages Year of publication: 2024 ISBN: 978-80-555-3302-5 (print), Also available as: 978-80-555-3294-3 (eBook)

THE GRAVITY OF ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM IN THE PERCEPTION OF SCHOLARS, STUDENTS, AND SCIENCE POLICY MAKERS IN BULGARIA

The ever-increasing spread of plagiarism in academia requires development of strategies to combat it so as to increase the prestige of Bulgarian scholars at the international and local level. Therefore, the main goals of the project are to analyze the concept of plagiarism in academia, arriving at a clear and detailed definition, applicable in practice to create efficient methods...

TURKISH-TO-ENGLISH SHORT STORY TRANSLATION BY DEEPL: HUMAN EVALUATION BY TRAINEES AND TRANSLATION PROFESSIONALS VS. AUTOMATIC EVALUATION

This mixed-methods study aims to evaluate the quality of Turkish-to-English literary machine translation by DeepL, incorporating both human and automatic evaluation metrics while engaging translation trainees and professional translators. Raw MT output of two short stories, Mendil Altında and Kabak Çekirdekçi, evaluated by both groups via TAUS DQF tool and evaluators wrote...

SELF-REPAIR AND MOTIVATION IN LEGAL AND MEDICAL SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETING: REFLECTIONS FROM STUDENT INTERPRETERS

The present study examines the similarities and differences in the use of self-repairs by student interpreters during simultaneous interpreting of two different speech types, medical and legal, as well as the underlying motivations behind these repairs. With this aim in mind, this case study involves an English-to-Turkish simultaneous interpreting experiment with 7 senior student...

WHO DROPPED THE SWORD OF STALINGRAD?

On November 29, 1943, at a ceremony at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill presented Marshal Stalin with a Sword of Honour as a gift from King George VI to the 'steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad'. According to an 'enduring legend' (Higgins, 1993), Stalin was surprised by the sword's weight and dropped it on the floor...

METAFICTION AND REPRESENTATION OF GENDERED IDENTITY IN GILLIAN FLYNN'S "GONE GIRL"

This study examines the interplay of gender stereotypes in crime narratives through the lens of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Flynn's novel challenges traditional portrayals of women in crime fiction, positioning them not merely as victims but as complex anti-heroines capable of orchestrating elaborate criminal plots fueled by vengeance and psychological manipulation. The paper...

RETHINKING GENETIC BORDERS IN THE HUNGER GAMES

Emphasizing the fading distinction between reality and artificiality due to the innovations in the fields of science and biotechnology, this paper argues that the fantasy world depicted by science fiction is no longer far from today's reality. Although technological advancements have enabled us to live more comfortably, when they are misused by those seeking to use them as a sign...

HENRY JAMES AND "THE ASPERN PAPERS": ARCHIVE, MEMORY, AND THE FAILURE OF BIOGRAPHY

This paper examines The Aspern Papers by Henry James through the lens of archive theory, biographical ethics, and the complexities of memory preservation. It explores how the protagonist's obsessive pursuit of Aspern's documents represents the human desire to reconstruct the Romantic past in Gothic atmosphere of Venice, often at the expense of ethical considerations and lived...

EMOTIONAL VOID AND IDENTITY FRAGMENTATION: MADNESS AND NARCISSISM IN "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET" BY MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1862)

This research aims at investigating the psychological dimension of the protagonist Lady Audley on the grounds of the dialectic of alleged madness and assumed narcissistic personality disorder related to psychoanalytic literary methodology and criticism. In the light of the first Freudian studies of the first decade of the twentieth century and the subsequent outcomes, we attempt...

EXTRACTION OF ANGLICISMS FROM A CORPUS OF MACEDONIAN MAGAZINE TEXTS

The present article is a description of the stages involved in compiling a specialized corpus of Macedonian magazine texts and the software tools employed to extract anglicisms from the corpus. The texts were collected from the magazine Kapital and cover two distinct periods: the years 2000 and 2020. The size of the corpus is about 2 million tokens and 141,852 types. The software...

RISK MANAGEMENT IN TRANSLATION - BOOK REVIEW

Book Details: Title: Risk Management in Translation Author: Anthony Pym Publisher: Cambridge University Press Number of pages: 76 pages Year of publication: 2025 ISBN: 9781009546843 (hardback) Also available as: ISBN 9781009546874 (paperback), ISBN 9781009546836 (eBook)

NEW INSIGHTS INTO INTERPRETING STUDIES. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND ACCESS - BOOK REVIEW

Book Details: Title: New Insights into Interpreting Studies. Technology, Society and Access Volume Editors: Agnieszka Biernacka, Wojciech Figiel Publisher: Peter Lang Number of pages: 304 pages Year of publication: 2024 ISBN: 9783631884850 (hardcover) Also available as: 9783631907139 (ePub), 9783631907122 (PDF)

Embracing Full Openness: Transitioning ESNBU from CC BY-NC to CC BY

This editorial explores the rationale behind transitioning the ESNBU journal's content licensing from CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial) to CC BY (Attribution). For a decade, the journal operated under the CC BY-NC license to restrict commercial use, but this approach has unintentionally limited its reach and visibility. The objective is to address these limitations and promote...

Infanticide as Self-de-facement: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"

Based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point (1847), and trusting, at the same time, existential phenomenology and deconstruction, this paper aims at investigating a guilty individual's impulse for self-authorization (and self-narration). It discusses infant mortality, motherhood, and suffering, in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning's oeuvre abounds...

Children as Commodities in the American Suburban Home: Joyce Carol Oates's Adaptation of the Ramsey Case in "My Sister, My Love"

Joyce Carol Oates's My Sister, My Love is a fictional memoir inspired by the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey. The novel, told from the perspective of the victim's brother, satirizes the exploitation of children in beauty pageants and the superficiality of suburban life. Through a counter-memory narrative, Oates sheds light on the hidden abuse endured by children, revealing the...

Alterity in Autobiography: Charles Lamb's "The Essays of Elia"

This article scrutinizes the unorthodox turn in Charles Lamb's autobiographical writing through the figure of Elia with its potential to test the limits of alterity and one's representation of oneself while challenging at the same time the immunity of self as the origin of knowledge and truth. In so doing, this study also maintains that Elia as the autonomous entity calls into...