Translation Studies Multiple Choice Questions

Intersemiotic translation occurs when a written text is translated into a different mode such as:

• Film

• Conference

• Conversation

• Script

• Novel

Intralingual translation occurs when we produce:

• Summary

• Commentary

• Adaptation of a text to a new culture

• A text of different mode

• Recasting

Descriptive translation studies examines:

• Product

• Outcome

• Purpose

• Grammar

• Context

Descriptive translation studies according to Holmes is subdivided into:

• Function-oriented

• Translator training

• Translation aids

• Partial

• Translation criticism

Product-oriented DTS involve the description or analysis of ______ within smaller-scale studies:

• Single ST-TT pair

• The function of translation

• Psychology of translation

• Context

• Cognitive perspectives

Medium-restricted theories are subdivided into translation by machine and humans, with further subdivisions according to whether translation is Computer-assisted translation and:

• Automatic machine translation

• Word-for-word

• Adapted

• Sense-for-sense

• Free

The applied branch of Holmes’s framework concerns:

• Translator training

• Product

• Function

• Process

• Time frames

Translation criticism according to Holmes’s framework consists of:

• Evaluation of translations.

• Teaching methods.

• Comparative analysis.

• Structural analysis.

• Testing techniques.

Translator training according to Holmes’s framework consists of:

• Testing techniques.

• Reviews of published translations.

• Expert informants.

• Marking student translations.

• Evaluation of translations.

IT applications include:

• Online forums.

• Dictionaries.

• Grammars.

• Expert informants.

• Curriculum design.