WorksheetsConceptos Final
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
According to Catford, translation shifts are defined as departures from what in the process of going from the Source Language (SL) to the Target Language (TL)?
a) Textual equivalence
b) Linguistic competence
c) Formal correspondence
d) Cognitive process
Catford identifies two main types of translation shifts. What are they?
a) Direct and Oblique
b) Shift of Level and Shift of Category
c) Servitude and Option
d) Structural and Class
A shift of level occurs when something expressed by grammar in the SL is expressed by what in the TL, or vice versa?
a) Phonology
b) Graphology
c) Lexis
d) Morpheme
Which of the following is given as an example of a level shift in the sources?
a) Translating "a medical student" (English, adjective + noun) as "un étudiant en médecine" (French, noun + prepositional phrase)
b) Translating "I like jazz" (English) as "me gusta el jazz" (Spanish)
c) Translating Russian aspect (grammar) by a lexical verb in English
d) Translating "advice" (English, uncountable) as "des conseils" (French, plural)
According to the sources, most of Catford's analysis is dedicated to which type of shift?
a) Shift of Level
b) Shift of Category
c) Intra-system shifts
d) Unit shifts
Which sub-type of category shift is described as involving changes in grammatical structure, often considered the most common?
a) Class shifts
b) Unit shifts
c) Intra-system shifts
d) Structural shifts
According to the sources, a major criticism of Catford's book is that his examples are almost all idealized and decontextualized, meaning he does not look at whole texts or even above the level of the what?
a) Word
b) Group
c) Clause
d) Sentence
After moving to Canada in 1946, Jean-Paul Vinay taught at the University of Montreal. What roles did he hold there?
a) Reader in French
b) Director of the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary
c) Professor and head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation
d) Head of the English Department
Besides his work on translation, Jean-Paul Vinay directed the publication of a significant work in 1962. What was it?
a) A comprehensive grammar textbook
b) A bilingual Canadian Dictionary
c) A book on phonetics and philology
d) A collection of translation theories
Jean-Paul Vinay became well known through a television course. What was the subject of this course?
a) Speaking English
b) Translation Theory
c) Canadian History
d) Speaking French
Before teaching at Harvard, where did Jean Darbelnet work as a reader?
a) University of Montreal
b) Bowdoin College
c) The universities of Wales, Edinburgh, and Manchester
d) Laval University
Upon moving to Canada in 1940, Jean Darbelnet taught at McGill University until 1946. What specific program did he set up there?
a) An MA in Linguistics and Translation
b) A television course on speaking French
c) A three-year program of night classes in translation
d) A bilingual dictionary project
Which of the following honors was awarded to Jean-Paul Vinay?
a) Order of Quebec
b) Nobel Prize
c) French Legion of Honor
d) Victoria Cross
Vinay and Darbelnet's model in Stylistique comparée was influenced by the work of which Russian theorist and translator?
a) Catford
b) Andrei Fedorov
c) Pym
d) Mossop
Which of the following is not considered one of the three procedures of direct translation?
a) Borrowing
b) Calque
c) Literal translation
d) Transposition
A calque is described as a special kind of borrowing where the SL expression or structure is transferred into the TL in what way?
a) With semantic change
b) Using a similar system
c) In a literal translation
d) By changing the grammatical structure
According to Vinay and Darbelnet, literal translation is generally prescribed as a good translation if it meets certain requirements. What are these requirements?
a) Semantic and pragmatic fitness
b) Lexical and grammatical correspondence
c) Structural, metalinguistic, and syntactic fitness
d) Idionatic and grammatical accuracy
Vinay and Darbelnet describe their seven main translation procedures as operating on three levels of analysis. Which of the following is not one of these levels?
a) The lexicon
b) Syntactic structures3
c) The message
d) Grammatical shifts
Roger Bell suggests translation theory must address two twin issues. Besides what knowledge and skills the translator must possess, what is the other issue?
a) How translation shifts occur
b) How the translation process takes place
c) The classification of changes from ST to TT
d) The relationship between linguistic competence and world knowledge
The "interpretive model" of translation, championed by Seleskovitch and Lederer, initially applied to the study of what?
a) Written translation of literary texts
b) Machine translation
c) Conference interpreting
d) Text analysis and criticism
According to the interpretive model, what is considered an "essential intermediate phase" if the translator is to avoid transcoding and calques?
a) Reading and understanding
b) Re-expression
c) Verification
d) Deverbalization
From the perspective of relevance theory, Ernst-August Gutt claims translation is an example of communication based around what model?
a) Analysis, transfer, restructuring
b) Source-Target correspondence
c) Decoding and encoding
d) A cause-and-effect model of inferencing and interpretation
Which method, particularly popular in the 1990s, involves asking the translator to verbalize his/her thought processes while translating or immediately afterwards?
a) Eye-tracking
b) Translog software
c) Post-test interviews
d) Think-aloud protocols (TAPs)12
More recent methods investigating cognitive processing have "triangulated" TAPs with technological innovations. Which of the following is listed as one of these technological methods?
a) Video recording subjects
b) Questionnaires
c) Pre-test interviews
d) Translog software, which records key-strokes
