Literary Translation

Orienting questions help you analyze the text before you start translating

• True

• False

Asking orienting questions can help you make better decisions as you translate

• True

• False

Problem-specific decisions take place before orienting questions

• True

• False

The identity of the author is always important

• True

• False

When can the meaning of the text be vague and open to various interpretations?

• in bibliographies

• in literary texts, poems

• in tragedies, dramas

Choose the basic language functions (Choose 3)

• Informative

• Expressive

• Transitional

• Vocative

Expressive function focuses on the author's feelings, emotions and attitudes

• True

• False

Vocative function is aimed at eliciting a reaction from a reader

• False

• True

Informative function can be referred to as artistic and aesthetic

• True

• False

All the texts have only 1 basic language function

• True

• False