Comprehension check

_____ is an approximate translation where a SL cultural word is translated by a TL cultural word. 

Couplets, triplets, quadruplets are particularly common for cultural words, if _____ is combined with a functional and a cultural equivalent. You can describe them as two or more bites at one cherry.

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

The main purpose of the _____ is to support or supplement another translation procedure in a couplet. 

• cultural  equivalent 

• modulation 

• functional equivalent 

• through translation 

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

Functional equivalent is the use of  a culture- free word, with a more specific term to neutralize or generalize the SL word.

• True

• False

Descriptive translation is the most accurate way of translating and can be used in general texts, publicity and propaganda, as well as for brief explanations to readers who are ignorant of the relevant SL culture.

• False

• True

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What kind of translation procedures is used to translate this phrase? 

SL: A girl in red

TL: Cô gái mặc đồ màu đỏ

• Paraphrase

• Expansion

   

• Literal translation

• Transference 

In that kind of translation procedure,  the meaning of the SL word is explained in several words and its purpose is to give clear images of SL concepts to the TL readers. 

 

•  Reduction and expansion

• Shift/ transposition

• Descriptive equivalent

• Cultural equivalent 

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Reduction and expansion are rather _____ translation procedures, which you practice intuitively in some cases.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

Paraphrase is an amplification or explanation of the meaning of a _____ of the text. It is used in an “anonymous" text when it is poorly written, or has important implications and omissions 

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Readers can only find: notes, additions, and glosses within the text, and in the form of parentheses and brackets.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.2.7

CCSS.RL.3.7

CCSS.RL.4.7