Rearrange these writing activities on the correspondence continuum: (Answer ex: 54321)

(1) Free translation

(2) version

(3) literal translation

(4) Interlinear translation

(5) Adaptation

Rearrange the following genres on the resemblance to the ST continuum. (Answer ex: 234156)

(1) Poetry

(2) Legal texts

(3) Advertising

(4) Business Letters

(5) Linguistics/Interlinear

(6) Scientific and Technical texts

Colina claimed that “translation can be understood as the process or the product of transforming a written text or texts from one h_____ language to another which generally requires a significant degree of resemblance or correspondence with respect to the source text.”

What are the three elements in translation? They are…

i) a written text

ii) transfer

iii) ?

The word “translation” can be understood as a…

i) product

ii) process

iii) ?

Indicate whether the term “translation” is being used to refer to the process, product or field.

The company was offering free translation services to non-profit corporations.

Indicate whether the term “translation” is being used to refer to the process, product or field.

An English translation of the Koran is available for all those attending the class.

Indicate whether the term “translation” is being used to refer to the process, product or field.

The Open Translation Project offers subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.

Indicate whether the term “translation” is being used to refer to the process, product or field.

The student decided to switch his major from literature to translation.

Indicate whether the term “translation” is being used to refer to the process, product or field.

I was not too happy with the first draft of the translation, so I decided to have someone else go over it.

Western societies translations of legal texts tend to be closer to the source text than business letters or scientific texts.

Business letters and scientific texts are more away from the source than the translation of a poem or even an advertisement.

We can achieve perfect equivalence within a translation.

The way readers relate to and read a text is intricately related to their experiences of the world, which are never exactly the same.

TYPES OF EQUIVALENCE:

- _________ _________

- Textual equivalence

- Syntactic equivalence

- Functional equivalence

Who postulated the terms communicative translation and semantic translation?

Communicative translation focuses on the _(1)_ of the translation, while semantic translation focuses on the _(2)_ of the ST.

Dynamic and Formal Translation are two terms invented by…

House (1977) suggested there are two methods of translation; one is _(1)_ and the other is _(2)_ translation.

Dryden (1680) claimed that there are two ends in translation continuum. The lower end is function and the other end is _____.

What is this translation method? ____ ____

This is a kind of word-for-word, and at times morpheme-by-morpheme, translation, sometimes used in linguistics, but this is not “typical” translation.

What is this translation method? ___ ___

This provides a structural translation that renders the structure of the source into the target; it is often used in foreign- and second-language teaching to test a student’s understanding of the grammar of the language under study.

Covert or overt?

A user’s guide that goes with a photocopier to be sold around the world.

Covert or overt?

A copy of academic transcript/ university diploma.

What is this translation method? ___ ___

This is an activity that tries to convey the main idea of the source text in the target language, without concern for preserving form. Unimportant content may be left out.

Who said "Translation is the replacement of textual material in one language by equivalent textual material in another language?”

"Translation consists of reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style" is a definition by…

“Translation is the expression in another language (or target language) of what has been expressed in another, source language, preserving semantic and stylistic differences” is a definition suggested by…

Machine translation (MT) is the translation produced by a software program with the intervention of a human translator.

Translators must prioritize some equivalence(s) over other ones.

In CAT (Computer-assisted Translation), TMs is the most important tool which stands for…

Besides the three elements in translation (a text, transfer, from one language into another), what is the fourth element?

What is included in the concept of Translation Competence?

(1) transfer/strategic

(2) knowledge

(3) linguistic

By “translation” we understand the process or the _(1)_ of transforming written text(s) from one human language to another that generally requires a (necessary) degree of resemblance or _(2)_ with respect to the source text.