LECTURE

What theory of translation in the Western world goes back to some of the fundamental observations of such personalities as Cicero, Horace, Augustine and Jerome, whose main task was the correct translation of Greek texts into Latin?

• Philological theories

• Philosophical translations

• Linguistic Theories

• Functional Theories

What was the focus of the philological orientation in translation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe?

• Source text

• history of interpretation

• on the issue of "faithfulness"

• “harmonizing”

Who made some of the most important early contributions to the philological aspects of translation?

• Etienne Dolet (1540)

• Luther (1530)

• Dryden (1680)

• Pope (1715)

Answer explanation

Some of the most important early contributions to the philological aspects of translation were made by Luther (1530), Etienne Dolet (1540), Cowley (1656), Dryden (1680), and Pope (1715), but Luther's influence was probably the greatest in view of his having directly and indirectly influenced so many Bible translations first in Western Europe and later in other parts of the world.

When did most of the philosophical theories of translation originate?

• after 1950

• in 1540

• in 1920s

According to Ezra Pound, what is the main goal of translation?

• to absorb and transform the ideas of the source text (ST)

• replace but extend the original

• to emulate the original but by “harmonizing” with the message of the ST.

Who is a German literary critic, sociologist and philosopher who penned a highly influential essay on translation in 1923 titled ‘The Task of the Translator’?

• Ezra Pound

• Martin Buber (1878–1965)

• Benjamin (1892–1940)

• Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929)

Who is the author of ‘The Task of the Translator'?

• Ezra Pound

• Benjamin (1892–1940)

• Martin Buber (1878–1965)

• Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929)

What was a good translation for Benjamin?

• to absorb and transform the ideas of the source text (ST)

• to reproduce a set of words

• that allowed the voice of the original to shine through, achieved not by attempting to emulate the original but by “harmonizing” with the message of the ST

Choose translators who contributed to the German translation of the Bible in the 1920s, who grew up after Benjamin.

• Andy Cheung, 2013

• Ezra Pound

• Martin Buber (1878–1965) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929)

According to Everett Fox's translation of Buber and Rosenzweig, "translations of individual words should reflect the 'original' meanings of the roots, translations of phrases, lines, and entire verses should mimic Hebrew syntax.

• TRUE

• FALSE