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WorksheetsLinguistic Theories of Translation: Eugene Nida
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the nature of translation?
a) Focus on different types of discourse
b)Focus on the process and procedures involved in any and all kinds of interlingual communication
c) Focus on only intralingual communication
d) All above.
A good translation is:
a) Adhering to the theories of translation
b) Being faithful to what the author was trying to say
c) Both above
d) None of the above
Translation is:
a) A new phenomena
b) As old as the history of mankind
c) Since 18th century
d) None of the above.
Bilingual lists of words made in Mesopotomia belongs to:
a) 4th millennium BC.
b) 3rd millennium BC
c) 2nd millennium BC
d) 1st millennium BC
Two paradoxes of interlingual communication are
a) Complex and natural
b) Complex and compound
c) Completely complex and artificial
d) Unnatural and complex
All communication is goal oriented and moves from the source’s intention to the receptor’s interpretation
a) True
b) False
c) Not applicable
d) Not relevant
Features and limitations of philological perspectives are discussed by
a) Cicero
b) Aristophanes
c) Octavio Paz and George Mounin
d) None of the above
Translation involves at least
a) One language
b) Two languages
c) Three languages
d) Multiple languages
Who added a dynamic dimension to language structure through the use of transformations?
a) Vinay Dharwadkar
b) Chomsky
c) Labov
d) Gumperz
‘Words occur with paralinguistic and extralinguistic features’ this statement indicates:
a) Communicative perspective
b) Linguistic perspective
c) Philological perspective
d) Socio-semiotic perspective
