General Translation Theory 2023

The strategic competence refers to the:

• ability to transform a source text in translation

• knowledge of the rules of translation

• ability to identify translation problems

• ability to make an overall plan of translation

Sociolinguistic competence of the translator refers to the:

• knowledge of linguistic means appropriate to genres and styles of discourse

• ability to select topics that are appropriate for a communicative event

• knowledge of sociolinguistics

• ability to use language that is appropriate to social contexts

• ability to translate SL dialects by TL dialects

Transfer competence refers to:

• an unconscious mental state reached through a process of cognitive development

• the knowledge of the process of transmission of meaning between languages

• ability to establish translational relations between speech units and their elements of the languages involved in translation

Which of the following is an S-universal?

• explicitation

• interference

• conventionalization

• simplification

Which of the following is a T-universal?

• sanitization

• untypical lexical patterning

• under-representation of target-language-specific items

• reduction of complex narrative voices

Which of the statements are correct?

• S-universals presuppose more focus on the differences.

• T-universals presuppose more focus on the similarities.

• With S-universals there is a balance between similarities and differences.

• T-universals presuppose more focus on the differences.

• S-universals presuppose more focus on the similarities.

The Unit of Translation is a:

• word.

• sentence.

• phrase.

• speech act.

• translation event.

By what does the translator’s unit of orientation differ from the unit of translation:

• linguistic content

• part of speech characteristic

• belonging to activity

• formal length

• the property of a text under translation

Pragmatic aspects of translation are connected with:

• the relation between the message and the reality denoted by a speech act.

• the relation between the author of the source text and the translator.

• the relation between the author of the source text and the message.

• the relation between the target text and the translator.

Pragmatic aspects of translation include:

• characteristics of recipients

• rendering the speaker’s implication

• conveying the target text readers’ expectations

• observing phatic function