Translation studies and Bible translation

“…Descriptive translation theorists attempt to account not only for textual strategies in the translated text, but also for the way in which the translation functions in the target cultural system. …”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Not only does she look back into the past as a source of inspiration and creation, but she also generates a longing for an idealized tribal life that never was but in the imaginary construct of afrocentrist theorists.…”
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A Feminist Ethics of Abortion by Anna Réz

“…I argue that although feminist theorists are right to say that defenses based on bodily autonomy set the wrong agenda for public discourse, thus contributing to a misleading and uninformed debate, Thomsonian arguments still have considerable advantages, both in philosophy and in the public discourse. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture by Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D'Ostuni

“…The constant migratory phenomena and the displacement of part of the world’s population from the countryside to the city are bringing great part of the agricultural workforce in the big cities, changing their work sector from agriculture to industry. In this context, theorists and promoters of urban farming have seen in this industry a powerful tool to find spaces suitable for cultivation within the urban fabric, while promoting a new green development of the city. …”
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L’usure iconique. Circulation et valeur des images dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Mathias Kusnierz

“…Postmodern Hollywood cinema has been characterized as a highly reflexive art, in which images refer to other images or to themselves—not to the world. As a result, theorists often come to the conclusion that Hollywood cinema no longer speaks about the real. …”
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La Pensée technocritique de Gaston Bardet by Antoine Perron

“…The architect and urban planner Gaston Bardet (1907-1989) is probably one of the most original and prolific French urban theorists of the twentieth century. After being marginalized in the 1950s and 1960s, his work has been the subject of several articles and scientific papers since the late 1970s. …”
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Une analyse de la souffrance enseignante : Horkheimer, Adorno et l’humain comme être souffrant by Arianne Robichaud, Marie-Hélène Masse-Lamarche

“…This article aims to understand the phenomenon of teaching difficulties and suffering from a theoretical point of view, through the sociological and philosophical perspectives of Frankfurt School’s first generation theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Its main goal is to highlight the possible relation between the microsociological manifestations of suffering experienced in teaching work (adaptation problems, stress, disenchantment vis-à-vis the profession, professional and personal identity changes) and the concept of the instrumental rationalization of the educational systems. …”
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Grading Prediction of Enterprise Financial Crisis Based on Nonlinear Programming Evaluation: A Case Study of Chinese Transportation Industry by Zhi-yuan Li

“…As the core of the effective financial crisis prevention, enterprise finance crisis prediction has been the focal attention of both theorists and businessmen. Financial crisis predictions need to apply a variety of financial and operating indicators for its analysis. …”
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An overview of recent developments in translation studies with special reference to the implications for Bible translation by J. A. Naudé

“…Descriptive translation theorists attempt to account not only for textual strategies in the translated text, but also for the way in which the translation functions in the target cultural system. …”
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The Relationship Between Critique of History and Metahistory:A Proposal by Abolhasan Fayaz Anush

“…It means that there are incongruous interests between them, and maybe the interpretation itself, causes an inconsistent relation between historians and theorists. The present paper explains that every historian needs to have a theoretical base for writing and studying history. …”
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The Liberal Political Realism of Bernard Williams by Annamária Csornay

“…Nevertheless, Williams’s realist arguments are indeed compelling for contemporary theorists. …”
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Exploring Development Challenges in Uganda Using Modernization Theory by Gloria Nambassa, Eko Priyo Purnomo

“…Drawing on works by theorists like Schwartz and Levy, the critique examines how these frameworks inadequately capture Uganda's complex modernization realities. …”
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Functional and Structural Features of Organizing the "Sense of Rightness" within the Structure of Personality by Yuliia Bogachenko

“…Approaches of other theorists, such as Leslie Greenberg, Robert Elliott, Erik Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Viktor Frankl, regarding the formation and maintenance of the "sense of rightness" are also analyzed. …”
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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CRIME OF DECEPTION AND THE CRIME OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING by Alexandru STAN

“…In this sense, we consider that this work is useful for theorists and practitioners, our aim is not only to present and analyse the controversial solutions, but also to propose solutions that, even if they are not fully taken up, can constitute a basis for discussion for future cases. …”
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Le Paysage. Une médiation héritée entre l’homme et la nature face à l’écologisation contemporaine des sensibilités esthétiques by Serge Briffaud

“…The first part presents the critical review of the theorists of this movement which considers the perception of nature through the landscape and the inherited codes guiding such a perception. …”
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A Comparative Study about the Meaning of Metaphors According to Mohammad Reza Isfahani and Donald Davidson’s theories by morteza Barati, Hossien Dabbagh

“…In the Islamic rhetorical tradition, metaphor has a more limited realm for its definition and application. All the metaphor theorists, both in the West and in Islamic rhetoric, believe that metaphor, in addition to the literal meaning, has a secondary and figurative meaning, but there are two opposite views. …”
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Slobodan Jovanović's interpretation of Plato's political philosophy by Terzić Predrag R.

“…Alongside his studies on the political, economic, and social doctrines of figures like Niccolò Machiavelli, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Benjamin Constant, Hans Kelsen, and other anti-Marxist theorists, Jovanović also dedicated significant attention to ancient political philosophy, particularly the works of Plato.…”
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Désobéissance radicale, désobéissance politique : la remise en cause du consensus rawlsien dans le champ philosophique étatsunien contemporain by Charlotte Thomas-Hébert

“…Yet many contemporary political theorists criticize its institutionalization and challenge the hegemony of what has become the “Rawlsian consensus”. …”
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Quand l’économie écologique dé-nature la justice environnementale by Laurie Gagnon-Bouchard

“…Despite the abundance of environmental justice literature, there are few articles examining the conceptualization of nature within it. Yet critical theorists of decolonial thought, ecofeminism and poststructuralism have shown that the representation of nature is not innocent and often participates in reinforcing power relations already at work. …”
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