Main Translation Studies Terminology

What is translation adaptation?

• Using the exact same words in the translated text
• Ignoring the cultural and linguistic context of the target audience
• Translating only the main ideas without considering the details
• Modifying a translated text to better suit the cultural and linguistic context of the target audience

What is the meaning of the term "translation equivalent" in Translation Studies?

• A word or phrase in one language that has the same meaning as those in another language

• A term that is only used in one specific dialect
• A term that cannot be translated into another language
• A term that has multiple meanings in different languages

What is the meaning of the term "false friend of the translator" in translation theory?

• A machine translation system that may produce inaccurate translation

• A person who pretends to be a translator but is not
• A word or phrase in a foreign language that looks similar to a word in the translator's native language but has a different meaning
• A word or phrase in the translator's native language that looks similar to a word in a foreign language but has a different meaning

What is the meaning of the term "skopos" in specialised translation theories?

• Purpose of a translation

• The volume of text to be translated

• The type of translation transformation conditioned by the source text

• Focus on the intention of source text in translating

What translation theory emphasizes the role of the source text in translation?

• Target text-oriented translation theory

• Translation equivalence-oriented translation theory

• Cultural translation theory
• Source text -oriented translation theory

• Skopos translation theory

What is "communicative translation" in translation theory?

• It prioritizes translating the text word-for-word without considering the meaning
• It emphasizes adding personal interpretations to the original text and free translation

• It focuses on conveying the meaning and intention of the original text rather than a free or literal word-for-word translation

• It emphasizes strict interpretation of the original text without any transformations

What does the term "translation adequacy" mean in translation theory?

• Accurately conveying the sence of the source text

• Adding personal interpretation to the translation
• Ignoring the original meaning of the source text
• Using machine translation only
• It is different from translation equivalence in emphasizing the meaning in use

What is permutation in translation?

• Changing the language of the text
• Rearrangement of the order of words or phrases in a sentence while maintaining the original meaning
• Adding new words to the sentence
• Removing all punctuation from the sentence

What is transposiiton in translation?

• Replacing nouns with verbs in a sentence
• Adding punctuation to a sentence for clarity
• Removing adjectives from a sentence to simplify it
• Changing the order of the major parts of a sentence to

• Changing part-of-speech chracteristics of words

What is modulation in translation?

• Using a different title for the translated document

• Adding more punctuation marks to the translated text
• Changing the font size of the translated text
• Adjustment of tone, style, or formality of a word to convey the original meaning in the target text

• Choosing a word correspondence that differs slightly in meaning from the SL counterpart