Linguistic Theories of Translation: Eugene Nida

What is the nature of translation?

• a) Focus on different types of discourse

• b)Focus on the process and procedures involved in any and all kinds of interlingual communication

• c) Focus on only intralingual communication

• d) All above.

A good translation is:

• a) Adhering to the theories of translation

• b) Being faithful to what the author was trying to say

• c) Both above

• d) None of the above

Translation is:

• a) A new phenomena

• b) As old as the history of mankind

• c) Since 18^th century

• d) None of the above.

Bilingual lists of words made in Mesopotomia belongs to:

• a) 4^th millennium BC.

• b) 3^rd millennium BC

• c) 2^nd millennium BC

• d) 1^st millennium BC

Two paradoxes of interlingual communication are

• a) Complex and natural

• b) Complex and compound

• c) Completely complex and artificial

• d) Unnatural and complex

All communication is goal oriented and moves from the source’s intention to the receptor’s interpretation

• a) True

• b) False

• c) Not applicable

• d) Not relevant

Features and limitations of philological perspectives are discussed by

• a) Cicero

• b) Aristophanes

• c) Octavio Paz and George Mounin

• d) None of the above

Translation involves at least

• a) One language

• b) Two languages

• c) Three languages

• d) Multiple languages

Who added a dynamic dimension to language structure through the use of transformations?

• a) Vinay Dharwadkar

• b) Chomsky

• c) Labov

• d) Gumperz

‘Words occur with paralinguistic and extralinguistic features’ this statement indicates:

• a) Communicative perspective

• b) Linguistic perspective

• c) Philological perspective

• d) Socio-semiotic perspective