Lecture 6. Eugene Nida

Who is the Father of the Dynamic Equivalence?

• A.D. Schweitzer

• E.A. Nida

• V.N. Komissarov

• Otto Kade

Eugene Nida distinguishes _____ types of equivalence.

• Two

• Four

• Five

• Three

In 1943, Nida received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the ______________

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The New Testament, however, was written in _______.

• Latin

• Greek

• Malaysian

• Hindi

What was E. Nida mostly interested in?

• Bible translation

• Shakespeare's poems

• Legal documents

• idiomatic translation

What was Eugene Nida's main goal?

• Let everyone handle their translation method.

• Translating the Bible in more than 200 languages.

• The desire is that the reader of both languages would understand the meanings of the text in a similar fashion.

Nida most notable contribution to translation theory is _____________.

• Decoding

• Encoding

• Dynamic Equivalence

• History of Translation

Dynamic equivalence has been understood as:

• Text-for-text translation

• Sense-to-sense translation

• Word-for-text translation

What's the other name for dynamic equivalence theory?

• Formal equivalence.

• Functional equivalence.

• Functional languages.

Formal equivalence have been understood basically as:

• Sense-for-sense translation.

• Word-for-sense translation.

• Word-for-word translation.