Translation Studies

Schleirmacher is considered to be the creator of which dichotomy?

• Semantic versus communicative translation

• Alienating or foreignization versus naturalization or domestication

• Direct translation versus oblique translation

• Formal equivalence versus dynamic equivalence

Lefevere examines translation as

• Rewriting

• Reconstruction

• Shifts

• Deconstruction

The core of feminist translation theory is

• Female authors should be translated by female translators

• There is a parallel between the status of translation in relation to original text and status of women in society and literature

• Texts should never be manipulated from a male gender perspective

• Relationships between languages and cultures parallel the relationships of the sexes and thus should be accepted at face value

The central intersection of translation studies and post-colonial theory is

• Cross cultural theories

• Analysis of texts written in colonies

• Histories of colonial writers

• Power relations

Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet identified two general translation strategies, i.e., direct translation and oblique translation. Among the following concrete translation strategies, which one belong to oblique translation?

• Borrowing

• Calque

• Literal Translation

• Transposition

Katharina Reiss, based on Karl Bühler's tripartite model of the functions of linguistic signs, set up a text typology relevant to translation and distinguishes the following text types, which are ______.(there may be more than one answer)

• Informative

• Expressive

• Descriptive

• Operative

Andre Lefevere describes the literary systems in which translation functions as being controlled by the following factors, which are: (more than one answer)

• professionals within the literary system

• patronage outside the literary system

• the dominant poetics

• the nature of the source text

According to Reiss's text typology theory, the primary function of the business contract is

• expressive

• informative

• operative

• phatic

In translating "內有惡犬” into "Beware of the Dog", the strategy used is

• semantic translation

• dynamic equivalence

• explicification

• communicative translation

According to Polysystem theory, when translated literature is in the central position in a literary systey, the translation strategy tend to be

• dynamic

• natural / communicative

• faithful /semantic

• free translation