Lesson 1 Translation Studies

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What is Translation?

Week 1


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- Basil Hatim and Jeremy Munday (2004).

Translation. An Advanced Resource Book.

Routledge: London & New YorkSection A

Chapter: 1

Section B

Chapter: 1

- Jeremy Munday (2001). Introducing Translation

Studies. Routledge: London & New York

pp. 4-14


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The Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Translation:

1. The act or an instance of translating

2. A written or spoken expression of themeaning of a word, speech, book, etc. in

another language

1. Process

2. Product


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Dictionary of Translation Studies

Translation An incredibly broad notion which

can be understood in many different ways. For

example, one may talk of translation as a

process or a product, and identify such sub-

types as literary translation, technical

translation, subtitling and machine translation;

moreover, while more typically it just refers tothe transfer of written texts, the term

sometimes also includes interpreting.


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Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

- British English: biscuits, football, Mummy,

rounders, sherbet lemons, got, dived, at

weekends

- American English: cookies, soccer, Mommy,

baseball, lemon drops, gotten, dove, on

weekends


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The ambit of translation:

1. The process of transferring a written text from SL

to TL, conducted by translator, or translators, in a

specific socio-cultural context.

2. The written product, or TT, which results fromthat process and which functions in the socio-

cultural context of the TL.

3. The cognitive, linguistic, visual, cultural andideological phenomena which are an integral

part of 1 and 2.

Hatim & Munday, 2004, p. 6


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What is Translation Studies?

James S. Holmes, The Name and Nature of

Translation Studies, 1972

A new discipline concerned with the complex

of problems clustered round the phenomenon

of translating and translations.


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- Pure areas of research:

1) The description of the the phenomena of

translation (descriptive translation theory)

2) The establishment of general principles to

explain and predict such phenomena

(translation theory)

- Product-oriented DTS

- Function-oriented DTS

- Process-oriented DTS


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Applied

TRANSLATOR

TRAINING

TEACHINGMETHODS

TESTINGTECHNIQUES

CURRICULUMPLANNING


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TRANSLATION

AIDS

IT APPLICATIONS DICTIONARIES GRAMMARS

Translation software

On-line databases

Use of Internet


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TRANSLATION

CRITICISM

REVISIONEVALUATION

OF TRANSLATIONSREVIEWS


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Roman Jakobson, On linguistic

Aspects of Translation, 1959

3 ways of interpreting a verbal sign:

1) It may be translated into other signs of the same

language (Intralingual translation or rewording)

2) It may be translated into another language(Interlingual translation or translation proper)

3) It may be translated into a nonverbal system of

symbols (Intersemiotic translation ortransmutation)


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Untranslatability and translatability

All cognitive experience and its classification isconveyable in any existing language.

Whenever there is deficiency , terminology may

be qualified and amplified by loanwords or loan-translations, neologisms or semantic shifts, and

finally, by circumlocution.

- screw = rotating nail (Northeast Siberianlanguage)

- electrical horsecar = horseless street car

(Russian)


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No lack of grammatical device in the language translated

into makes impossible a literal translation of the entire

conceptual information contained in the original *+.

If some grammatical device is absent in a given language,

its meaning may be translated into this language by lexical

means.

- Dual forms like old Russian constructions can be

translated with the help of a numeral (e.g. two )

- What happens when translating She has brothers into

a language which discriminate dual and plural?- Choice

- Supplementary information (the richer the context of a

message, the smaller the loss of information)


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All cognitive experience and its classification is

conveyable in any existing language

Only poetry by definition is untranslatable, as

the form contributes to the construction of the

meaning of the text.Dichotomy

Sense/content form/style

Examples

Names


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Meaningful names

- Conventional and loaded proper names

(Hermans, 1988)

- Fluffy Fuffi

- Muggles Babbani

- Dumbledore Silente

- Tom Marvolo Riddle (I am Lord Voldemort)

Tom Orvoloson Riddle (Son io Lord

Voldemort)

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Lesson 1 Translation Studies