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Siamardi, Tahereh; Deedari, Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The focus of the present study is to demonstrate traces of Homi k. Bhabha's notion of identity in V. S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" (1961). As a prominent postcolonial figure, Bhabha has contemplated over the formation of identity in the colonizing circumstances. He discusses on what happens to the colonizer and the colonized…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Policy, Novels, Sociocultural Patterns
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Anber, Sameerah Jabbar; Swear, Muna Abdual Hussein – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study investigated the sociocultural differences in translating Euphemistic expressions from English into Arabic. Particularly, the study took the novel "A Grain of Wheat" to show the differences of these expressions usage by two translators from different cultures. The study adapts a qualitative approach applied in Leppihalme's…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Translation, English, Semitic Languages