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WorksheetsTranslation and Linguistics Worksheet
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 45mins
The translation of "paroxysmal dyspnea" as "cơn khó thở kịch phát" in Vietnamese language is termed_____________.
translation proper
intralingual translation
intersemiotic translation
The interpretation of "the penny drops" as "he finally understands that he had not understood before" is termed___________.
transmutation
interlingual translation
intralingual translation
______ can't be divided into smaller parts.
Morpheme
Morphology
Lexicon
The ________ is 'the smallest unit of language that can be used by itself'.
morpheme
word
Phrase
____ can be either a word or part of a word that has the meaning.
Morpheme
Morphology
Lexicon
We can distinguish four main types of meaning in words and utterances: Propositional meaning, Expressive meaning, Presupposed meaning, and _______.
Lexical meaning
Evoked meaning
______ cannot be judged as true or false. This is because it relates to the speaker's attitude rather to what utterances refer to.
Propositional meaning
Expressive meaning
Presupposed meaning
_____ of a word or an utterance arises from the relation between it and what it refers to or describe in a real or imaginary world.
The propositional meaning
The presupposed meaning
The evoked meaning
_____ are semantically arbitrary restrictions which do not follow logically from the propositional meaning of a word.
Selectional restrictions
Electional restrictions
Collocational restrictions
_____ involve deliberate confusion of collocational ranges to create new images, is an unusual combination of words, one that challenges our expectations as hearers or readers.
Unmarked collocations
All collocations
Marked collocations
An idiom may be used in the source text in its ______ at the same time.
literal senses
idiomatic senses
literal and idiomatic senses
______ refers to the tendency of certain words to co-occur regularly in a given language.
A fixed expression
An idiom
_______ refers to the set of collocates, that is other words, which are typically associated with the word in question.
Idiom range
Collocational range
Fixed expression range
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Level of specificity of a word and its number of senses influence the collocational range of a word.
The collocational range of the word "shrug" is broader than that of the word "do".
Some words have a much broader collocational range than others.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
We create new collocations by extending an existing range.
We create new collocations by deliberately putting together words from opposing ranges.
The collocational range of the word "shrug" is broader than that of the word "make".
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Some words have a much broader collocational range than others.
The number of senses a word has cannot influence the collocational range of a word.
Level of specificity of a word can influence the collocational range of a word.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Fixed expressions often have fairly transparent meanings.
Patterns of collocation are largely arbitrary and independent of meaning.
Idioms are frozen patterns of language which allow much variation in form.
Fixed expressions and proverbs often have fairly ________. In spite of this, the meaning of a fixed expression or proverb is somewhat more than the sum meanings of its words.
transparent meanings
functional meanings
ambiguous meanings
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Idioms and fixed expressions are frozen patterns of language which allow little or no variation in form.
Idioms often carry meanings which can be deduced from their individual components.
Fixed expressions often have fairly transparent meanings.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Grammar is organized along two main dimensions, morphology and syntax.
Grammatical structure differs from lexical structure in that it is more resistant to change.
Grammatical choices are largely optional.
In English, a distinction between one and more than one (singular and plural) has to be expressed ________
lexically
morphologically
not at all
In Vietnamese, a distinction between one and more than one (singular and plural) has to be expressed _____
lexically or not at all
morphologically or not at all
not at all
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Tense and aspect are not grammatical categories in Vietnamese.
English has a grammatical category of gender.
The category of person relates to the notion of _____
participant roles
relationship between a verb and its subject
aspectual differences
The main function of the passive in Vietnamese is to______.
avoid specifying the agent
express adversity
give an impression of objectivity
In translation, the matter of ______ deals with grammatical categories, such as number and gender.
grammatical equivalence
textual equivalence
organizational equivalence
The vocabulary of a language as a set of referring words to a series of conceptual fields. These fields reflect the divisions and sub-divisions imposed by a given linguistics community on the continuum of experience. In linguistics, the divisions are called _______.
pragmatic fields
semantic fields
syntactic fields
_____ is the strategy which is particularly common in dealing with culture-specific items, modern concepts, and buzz words.
Translation using a borrow word
Translation using a loaned word
Translation using a loan word
Ellipsis _____ the omission of an item. In other words, in Ellipsis, an item is replaced by nothing.
invloves
involving
The form of the verb in languages which have tense and aspect categories usually indicates two main types of information: ______.
time relations and aspectual differences
aspectual differences
person and voice
The most important difference between grammatical and lexical choices, as far as translation is concerned, is that ______.
grammatical choices are largely obligatory while lexical choices are largely optional
grammatical choices are largely optional while lexical choices are largely obligatory
grammatical choices and lexical choices are largely obligatory
______ is a grammatical distinction according to which a noun or pronoun is classified as either masculine or feminine in some languages.
Gender
Person
Voice
Voice is a grammatical category which defines ______.
participant roles
the relationship between a verb and its subject
aspectual differences
______ have to do with the temporal distribution of an event, for instance its completion or non-completion, continuation or momentariness.
Voices
Time relations
Aspectual differences
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
The theme is what the clause is about.
The theme is the goal of discourse.
The rheme is the most important element in the structure of the clause.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
The distinction between theme and rheme is speaker-oriented.
The rheme is what the clause is about.
The rheme is the most important element in the structure of the clause.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Theme and rheme are not grammatical notions.
Tense and aspect are not grammatical categories in Vietnamese.
A distinction between what is given and what is new in a message is speaker-oriented.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
Theme and rheme are grammatical notions.
The distinction between theme and rheme is speaker-oriented.
A distinction between what is given and what is new in a message is hearer-oriented.
Which of the following statement is NOT true?
The rheme acts as a point of orientation and a point of departure.
The rheme is the goal of discourse.
The rheme is the most important element in the structure of the clause.
For _____ there are surface connections which establish interrelationships between persons and events; these allow us to trace participants in a text in which different parts of the text relate to each other.
cohesion
coherence
contextualization
_____ is a surface relation; it connects together the actual words and expressions that we can see or hear.
Collocation
Coherence
Cohesion
Conjunctions so and consequently belong to _____
adversative
causal
Temporal
Conjunctions then and next belong to _____
additive
adversative
Temporal
The translator should have perfect knowledge of both _____
equivalence
grammar
SL and TL
Conjunction involves the use of formal markers ________ sentences, clauses and paragraphs to each other.
to relate
to relating
to relates
The problem of equivalence arises primarily in translating __________.
poems
fiction
Idioms
____ are semantically arbitrary restrictions which do not follow logically from the propositional meaning of a word.
Collocational restrictions
Selectional restrictions
Electional restrictions
_______ means that the target language has no direct equivalent for a word which occurs in the source text.
Non-equivalence at word level
Selectional restrictions
Electional restrictions
In the field of VEHICLES, vehicles are a superordinate and bus, car, truck, coat, ... are its _________.
Hyponym
Hypernym
Synonym
Translators ________ language-specific conventions for relating verbal to visual information.
need to sensitive of
need to be sensitive to
need to be sensitive with
Translators, as we have seen, can be extremely ________
creation
creative
Creativeness
Cohesion is the network of lexical, grammatical and other relations that provide ________
links between various words of a text
links between various parts of a text
links between various parts and a text
Which of the following best defines a collocation?
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood literally
A combination of words that frequently occur together
A free word combination with no restrictions
Why are collocational restrictions often considered "arbitrary"?
Because they always follow logical semantic rules
Because they are universal across languages
Because they cannot be explained by grammar
In translation, what is the main challenge of collocations?
They may not match natural usage in the target language
They are always easy to substitute word-for-word
They never occur in specialized registers
Which of the following is an idiom rather than a simple collocation?
Take a photo
Bury the hatchet
Pay a visit to someone
Which feature makes idioms difficult to translate?
They never exist in spoken language
They may be culture-bound with no TL equivalent
They always lose their meaning when paraphrased
What should translators prioritize when dealing with grammatical equivalence?
Always keep the exact ST form, even if unnatural
Ignore grammar to focus only on lexis
Adapt TL grammar and cultural norms while keeping
Which of the following languages mainly relies on context instead of tense marking?
Chinese
English
French
English uses passive -> ________.
Impersonal
Active
Direct
Reflexive
What does textual equivalence mainly focus on?
Grammatical correctness only
Cohesion and information flow in a text
Avoiding cultural references
Which of the following is an example of substitution?
"I like coffee. Do you like it too?"
"I bought a book. The book is new."
"I saw a dog, a cat, and a bird."
Which conjunction expresses a cause-effect relation?
However
Meanwhile
Therefore
Which of the following best illustrates lexical cohesion?
Repeating the same word multiple times
Changing the subject and object frequently
Using synonyms and related words across the text.
Ethics is _______
moral principles that govern a person's behavior.
immoral principles that govern a person's behavior.
moral and immoral principles that govern a person's behavior.
The translator has to enhance his/her knowledge by creating and updating files.
resource
terminology
Professional
Translators should endeavor to provide service of the highest in their professional practice.
confidentiality
quality
Professionalism
Which Sentence is TRUE?
Ethics is nurturing the right virtues only in ourselves and those in our care.
Ethics is a lifelong process of learning without anything else
Ethics is understood as a lifelong process of learning and improvement
In translation and interpreting, morality is not_______ or socially approved habits, which do vary considerably from one good manners cultural environment to another:
same as
the same as
the same
Translators cannot escape the burden of their moral proximity_______
to others
to himself/herself
to a few readers
Interpreters and translators use their best professional judgement in remaining____at all times to the meaning of texts and messages.
faithful
unfaithful
Faithfulness
Between the verbal and the visual is an important aspect to bear in_____
reading texts
translation
write texts
Semiotic resources include gesture, body language, colour, and_____
code dress
code dressing
dress code
In translation, the matter of_______ categories, such as number and gender.
grammatical equivalence
textual equivalence
According to the_____ Language is nothing more than a vehicle for the message and can even be an obstacle to understanding. This explains why it is always better to deverbalize meaning must be translated, not language when we translate.
Sociolinguistic approach
Linguistic approach
Communicative approach
The_____ does not consider that a translation is a linguistic endeavor but instead a literary one.
Literary approach
Communicative approach
Linguistic approach
According to the_____ is and what is not translatable and what is or what is not acceptable through to translation, the social context defines what selection, filtering and even censorship.
Communicative approach
Sociolinguistic approach
Linguistic approach
Interactional organization motivates us to make choices that ensure a clear progression of links then throughout a text point of view in maintained
inherent
Coherent
Cohesive
____ aren't grammatical notions. Grammar is part of the abstract system of language. In context, grammaticality doesn't necessarily ensure acceptability or coherence.
Theme and rheme
Subject and title
Topic and subject
The word' _____________referring to something that made of wood, use to sit, etc.
iron
case
Chair
The interpretation of "He is reading a book." as "Anh ấy đang đọc một quyển sách." is termed__________
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "I'm feeling under the weather" as "Tôi thấy không được khoẻ" is termed__________
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Method
The interpretation of "It's raining cats and dogs." as "Trời đang mưa như trút nước" is termed__________
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "I'm all ears." as "Tôi đang lắng nghe" is termed
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "It's not my cup of tea." as "tôi không hứng thú với việc đó." is termed_____
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "He kicked the bucket" as "Ông ấy đã qua đời." is termed_____
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "The report was submitted yesterday." as "Hôm qua họ đã nộp báo cáo." is termed
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "Break a leg!" as "Chúc bạn thật thành công!" is termed
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "She has a big house." as "Cô ấy có một ngôi nhà lớn" is termed_______
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
The interpretation of "Let's grab a burger after school" as "Tan học mình đi ăn bánh mì nha." is termed_____
Literal Translation
Sense-based Translation
Adaptation Methods
