Translation Midterm Exam

Marcus Tullius Cicero pointed out that one should translate verbum pro verbo and opened a debate that continued for centuries. What is verbum pro verbo?

• Sense-for-sense Translation

• Free Translation

• Literal Translation

• Idiomatic Translation

What is sensum pro senso?

• Free Translation

• Faithful Translation

• Legal Translation

• Technical Translation

The linguist who believed that translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-languge message, first in terms of meaning snd secondly in terms of style. He developed dynamic-equivalence Bible-translation theory

• Etienne Dolet

• Eugene Nida

• Roman Jakobson

• Mary Shell-Hornby

The person who published Translation Studies: An Integrated Approach. She believed that translation is a complex act of communication in which the SL author, the reader as the translator and translator as TL author and the TL reader interact.

• Etienne Dolet

• Eugene Nida

• Roman Jakobson

• Mary Shell-Hornby

He was an English professor of translation at the University of Surrey known for his view of translation in the 19th century, ‘The Evolution of Translation’.

• Peter Newmark

• Horace

• Cicero

• St. Jerome

This type of translation is the one that tends to reproduce the exact meaning of the SL into account not only language but the content, so that they are closer to the original

• Idiomatic

• Semantic

• Communicative

• Adaptation

This type of translation is used for poetry and plays. The main sense is maintained but cultural words/sense is adapted (rewritten) in the TL

• Idiomatic

• Semantic

• Literal

• Adaptation

A concept of translation which means the translated text

• Process

• Product

A concept in translation which means the act of producing the translation

• Product

• Process

A professor of translation studies who affirmed that the process of translation between two different written languages involves the translator changing an original written text (the ST) in the original language (the SL) into a written text (TT) in a different language (the TL), such process has a result, the product, the translated text

• Peter Newmark

• Eugene Nida

• Edwin Gentzler

• Jeremy Munday