Interdisciplinary Translation

Question 1

Informative texts

Answer 1

The communication of content

Question 2

Expressive texts

Answer 2

The communication of artistically organised content

Question 3

Operative texts

Answer 3

The communication of content with a persuasive character

Question 4

Method of translating for informative texts

Answer 4

You should translate according to the sense and meaning in order to convey the invariability of the content.

Question 5

Method of translating for expressive texts

Answer 5

The mode of translation is translation by identification, in essence the translator identifies the artistic intention of the source author to maintain the artistic quality of the text

Question 6

Method of translating for operative texts

Answer 6

The mode of translating is adaptive translating, essentially that the persuasive language should be adapted to the needs of the target culture

Question 7

Week 2 Reading

Answer 7

Kind and Individuality of Text: Decision Making in Translation (Katharina Reiss)

Question 8

Week 3 Reading

Answer 8

The Nature and Role of Norms in Translation (Gideon Toury)

Question 9

Simple definition of a norm

Answer 9

General ideas or values held by a community that influence behaviour by prescribing what is tolerated and what is not.

Question 10

What do norms determine in translation?

Answer 10

In translation, it is norms that determine the (type and extent of) equivalence manifested by actual translations.

Question 11

Preliminary norms

Answer 11

Preliminary norms are a priori norms that influence what texts undergo translation and the tolerance for translation from a mediating language.

Question 12

Operational norms

Answer 12

Operational norms are made during translation and influence decisions relating to the fullness and organisation of the translation, as well as the process of reverbalisation

Question 13

Textual-linguistic norms

Answer 13

Textual-lingustic norms influence the word choice related to the adequacy or acceptability of the translation. They may be general and apply to all translations, or particular and apply to a particular text-type or translational strategy.

Question 14

Week 4 Reading

Answer 14

Testaments Betrayed (Milan Kundera) (book)

Question 15

Three ideas in Kundera’s reading

Answer 15

1. Systematic synonymising
2. Avoidance of repetition
3. Problem of authority

Question 16

Systematic synonymising

Answer 16

the desire of translators to use a different word in translation rather than the obvious choice

Question 17

Avoidance of repetition

Answer 17

the tendency for translators to limit repetitions in the target text regardless of the repetitions in the source text

Question 18

Problem of authority

Answer 18

Forsaking the style of the author in favour of a more standard language

Question 19

Essential considerations when approaching the translation of postcolonial texts

Answer 19

1. Acceptability vs adequacy
2. Preservation of realia
3. Footnotes
4. Translating the poetry of prose

Question 20

Acceptability

Answer 20

responds to the target language and culture

Question 21

Adequacy

Answer 21

responds to the source language and culture

Question 22

Quote from Cavagnoli

Answer 22

“…the forced Italianization or Europeanization of another continent’s landscape would represent a further process of cultural colonization”

Question 23

3 strategies for translating multilingual texts

Answer 23

1. foreword
2. untranslated syntagms (segments)
3. keeping terms if their meaning makes sense in context

Question 24

3 considerations when translating source texts with indigenous content

Answer 24

1. Shared vocabulary (Rom in Yolgnu)
2. Realia
3. Conveying context

Question 25

A sign according to Pierce

Answer 25

Made up of the sign, object and interpretant. A sign is anything which is determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, its interpretant.

Question 26

5 categories of signs

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1. Signs defined by "if then" relationship 2. Gesture produced with the intent of communication 3. Iconic signs ("if then" relationship but one-to-one correspondence between expression and content) 4. Symbols 5. Signs as targets (stands for where)

Question 27

What is a specialised translation course (Abdal)

Answer 27

“… specialized translation courses can be cited as an example to the use of interdisciplinarity in translation studies”

Question 28

The interdisciplinary nature of archaeology translation:

Answer 28

“linguistically, culturally, and technologically blended task-model”

Question 29

2 strategies for opera surtitle translating

Answer 29

1. concentrates on translating the libretto 2. focuses on the particular stage interpretation