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An analysis of Google translation and human translation when translating idiomatic expressions from Sinhala into Tamil translation

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dc.contributor.author Muthukumar, Hosshanthika
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-27T06:38:22Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-27T06:38:22Z
dc.date.issued 2022-09-28
dc.identifier.citation Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium - 2022 on “Socio-Economic Development through Arabic and Islamic Studies”. 28th September 2022. South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil, Sri Lanka. pp. 143-154. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-624-5736-55-3
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6485
dc.description.abstract Translation is a social phenomenon. Translating a text from one language into another language is not an easy task, especially in idiomatic expressions. This study aims to analyse the idiomatic expressions with Google Translation and Human Translation. Google translation is a free service of Google; it is one of the tools which were used by many of them. This study adopted the descriptive qualitative method to analyse the data. This paper focuses on 20 sentences with idiomatic expressions, which were randomly selected by the researcher and translated through Google Translator and Human Translation (researcher’s knowledge). Every sentence was analysed in a detailed manner. Moreover, the final result of the study displayed that twenty out of only four sentences were correctly translated by Google Translate. It was identified that Google translates mostly uses the direct translation method, word for word translation and transliteration method. This paper identified the discussed the mistranslation of idiomatic expressions when using the Google translation. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil. en_US
dc.subject Google translation en_US
dc.subject Human translation en_US
dc.subject Idiomatic expressions en_US
dc.subject Sinhala Language en_US
dc.subject Tamil language en_US
dc.title An analysis of Google translation and human translation when translating idiomatic expressions from Sinhala into Tamil translation en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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