TOT-U2

What is an approach for translation?

• translating sentence by sentence to get the

  feel and the feeling tone of the text, and then you deliberately sit back, review the

  position, read the rest of the SL text
  

• read the whole text two or three times, and find the intention, register, tone, mark the

  difficult words and passages and start translating only when you have taken your bearings
  

• making semantic and communicative translations

• making free and adaptation translation

What does semantic translation stress on?

• meaning

• message

• reader

• utterance

What does communicative translation stress on?

• author

• meaning

• reader

• thoughts

Which could be a text category for communicative translation?

• high literature

• autobiographies

• important statement

• journalism

What is word for word translation?

What is adaptation translation?

Can you give an example for an unit of translation?