Translation

The Paris School developed a theory that fulfills three of the four basic requirements of any theoretical model. Which elements are they?

• Determinism

• Idealism

• Empiricism

• Parsimony

Interpreting involves...

• Transmitting a message in a native language

• Transforming one semiotic entity into another and transmitting a message.

Who concluded that reformulations were produced based on a deverbalized message, not the words that had been said?

• Seleskovitch

• Gutte

• Albir

Translating is based on the written word and interpreting on the ______ word.

The translator participates in the same communicative context both physically and temporally

• True

• False

The translator is separated from the transmitter and the receiver by both time and space

• True

• False

Which three stages can we find in both translating and interpreting?

• Reinterpretation

• Reformulation

• Understand

• Deverbalization

The translator has to be an expert reader, capable of activating his or her extralinguistic cognitive memory to interact with and make sense of the text.

• True

• False

In written translation, the speaker's speech is broken into fragments, and at the end of each pause, the interpreter summarizes the contents of the speech in the TL.

• True

• False

The ____ of the translation is an essential element of the translation process.

• Number of pages

• Language

• Context