Week 11- Intercultural Translation

Here is Nida's statements about technical procedures in translation, except.....

• analysis of the source and target languages

• a through study of the source language text before making attempts translate it

• Making judgments of the semantic and syntactic approximations

• analysis the grammar of the text

Here are the Nida's organizational procedures we need to do during translation process, except......

• constant re-evaluation of the attempt made

• contrasting it with the existing available translations of the same text done by other translators

• checking the text's communicative effectiveness by asking the target language readers to evaluate its accuracy and effectiveness

• setting the writing format of the text

Jaaskelainen (1999:71) considers strategy as, "a series of competencies, a set of steps or processes that favor the acquisition, storage, and/or utilization of information."

• True

• False

Newmark (1988) mentions the difference between translation methods and translation procedures. He writes that, "while translation methods relate to whole texts, translation procedures are used for ________"

• sentences and the smaller units of language

• Sentences and words per words

• borrowing words

• paragraphs

Mention 3 types of Newmark's translation methods!

Formal equivalence means using a referent in the TL culture whose function is similar to that of the source language (SL) referent.

• True

• False

Linguistic equivalence means a 'word-for-word' translation

• True

• False

Componential analysis means comparing an SL word with a TL word which has a similar meaning but is not an obvious one-to-one equivalent, by demonstrating first their common and then their differing sense components.

• True

• False

Paraphrase occurs when the translator combines two different procedures.

• True

• False

Recognized translation occurs when the translator normally uses the official or the generally accepted translation of any institutional term.

• True

• False