ENG13N Translation and Editing of Text

What was Vinay and Darbelnet's view of equivalence-oriented translation as a procedure?

• It translates the word from the source language to the target language literally without changing anything.

• It replicates the same situation as in the original while using completely different wording.

• It cannot maintain the stylistic impact of SL text in the TL text.

• It is not an ideal method when the translator has to deal with proverbs, idioms, clichés, nominal or adjectival phrases.

What was Vinay and Darbelnet's claim with regard to equivalent expressions between language pairs?

• they are acceptable as long as they are listed in a bilingual dictionary as "full equivalents".

• they did not note that glossaries and collections of idiomatic expressions 'can be exhaustive'.

• they conclude by saying 'there's no need for creating equivalences that arises from the situation'.

• they argue that even if semantic equivalent of an expression in the SL text is quoted in dictionary or a glossary, it is not enough.

What was Jokobson's study of equivalence all about?

• It was about his aphorism 'there is signatum without signum'.

• It was about his suggestion of the three kinda of translation as Intralingual, Interlingual, and Multilingual.

• It was the theoretical analysis of translation when he introduced the notion of 'equivalence in difference'.

• It was based on his intersemiotic approach to language.

What did Nida and Taber argue about the types of equivalence?

• that there were many different types of equivalence.

• that there were two different types of equivalence.

• that there were four different types of equivalence.

• that there were three different types of equivalence.

What type of equivalence was Nida in favour of as more effective translation procedure?

• Formal Correspondence

• Formal Equivalence

• Dynamic Correspondence

• Dynamic Equivalence

What was Catford's approach to translation equivalence?

• Adopted Nida's approach to translation

• Linguistic-based approach to translation

• The introduction of the characteristics of the types and shifts of translation

• Proposed a very limited types of translation

What were central to House's discussion of the concept of translations?

• Situational and Dimensional translation

• Formal and Dynamic Equivalence

• Overt and Covert translation

• Semantic and Pragmatic equivalence

What was Baker's approach to translation equivalence?

• She explores the notions of equivalence at different levels in the translation process.

• She introduces new terms and assigned them to the notion of equivalence.

• She had new list of conditions upon which the concept of equivalence can be defined.

• She includes many aspects of translation and putting all together the linguistic and communicative approaches.

What is the difference between House's theory of equivalence in translation than that of Catford's?

• Catford's theory of equivalence in translation relates linguistic features to the context of both source text and target text than that of Catford's.

• House's theory of equivalence in translation uses incomplete texts than that of Catford's.

• Catford's theory of equivalence in translation gives authentic examples than that of House's.

• House's theory of equivalence in translation seems to be much more flexible than Catford's.

Why was Catford's linguistic theory of translation was very much criticised?

• Snell-Hornby argued that Catford's definition of textual equivalence is 'circular'.

• Catford's theory relies on multilingual informants.

• Snell-Hornby asserts that the translation process can be simply reduced to linguistic exercise.

• Catford's theory is 'adequately enough' and his example sentences were just simple.