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Week 1- Session 1: Overview of Translation - Session 2: The Process of Translation... Peter Newmark • Translation is the replacement of textual material in one language source language b

Week 1

- Session 1: Overview of Translation

- Session 2: The Process of Translation

Session 1: Overview of Translation

1.1 What is translation

• Translation is rendering the meaning of the text into

another language in the way that the author intended the text (Peter Newmark)

• Translation is the replacement of textual material in one language (source language) by equivalent textual material

in another language (target language) ( JC Catford)

• Translation is the process of changing sth that is written

or spoken into another language (Oxford advanced

learner’s dictionary)

1.2 Why is translation

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In this era of globalization where

mostly everyone wants to explore

something new each moment, it

becomes impossible to actually

avoid how important translation is

We all do realize that translation is

not just a way of converting words

into other words but it’s a

complicated and a very crucial way

of explaining things in a way that

its actual meaning is delivered

Translation also carries one culture

to the other altogether in all

around the world

The Importance of Translation

Communication is the key of any successful relation, business or in fact anything, you are nothing if you cannot communicate well and so here the role of

a translator becomes more crucial and very important Just imagine if you are hungry and you want eat something but your menu card is in Turkish language, what will you do? Move out hungry? Or you will take help of Translator who will

translate English to Turkish language

and hence you can order something to eat for you Translation to Turkish or

translation in English here is more than a way of expressing what you needed and hence it signifies the importance of translation.

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Important for MNC’s:

All the multinational companies would have been in a huge loss if

they would have ignored the vitality of translation and the power

of lingual differences MNC’s are the biggest example of how trade is done in other countries with the help of Translations China wouldn’t have been a leading economy if they wouldn’t have adopted translators in different languages

For cultural aspects:

Suppose if you want to travel across the world to understand different cultural values, how you will interact with their people when you don’t even understand what they say It is impossible to exchange cultures without understanding each other’s views and significance of their culture We will be in complete loss, if we do not understand the importance of translation today.

So friends, as you can notice, these are the certain things that truly demonstrate how a translation service should be adopted after all.

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1.3 History of translation

• The first trace of translation dates from 3000 B.C, during the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the area of the First Cataract, Elephantine, where

inscriptions in two languages have been found

• It became a significant factor in the West in 300 BC Luther's Bible

translation in 1522 laid the foundations of modern German

1.3 History of translation

• In the 19 th century translation was mainly a one-way means of communication between prominent men of letters and, to a lesser degree, philosophers and

scientists and their educated readers abroad.

• The 20 th century has been called the “age of translation” to which one may add

“and interpreting” International agreements between states, between state,

public and private organizations are now translated for all interested parties, whether or not the signatories understand each other's language The setting up

of a new international body, the constitution of an independent state, the

formation of a multinational company, gives translation enhanced importance

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1.4 The dynamics of translation (Peter Newmark)

A text is pulled in ten different directions, as follows:

1 The individual style or idiolect of the SL author When should it be (a)

preserved, (b) normalized?

2 The conventional grammatical and lexical usage of this type of text,

depending on the topic and the situation.

3 Content items referring specifically to the SL, or third language (i.e not SL or TL) cultures.

4 The typical format of a text in a book, periodical, newspaper, etc., as

influenced by tradition at the time.

5 The expectations of the putative readership, bearing in mind their estimated knowledge of the topic and the style of language they use, expressed in terms of the largest common factor, since one should not translate down (or up) to the

readership.

A text is pulled in ten different directions, as follows:

6, 7, 8 As for 2, 3 and 4 respectively, but related to the TL

9 What is being described or reported, ascertained or verified (the

referential truth), where possible independently of the SL text and the

expectations of the readership

10 The views and prejudices of the translator, which may be personal and subjective, or may be social and cultural, involving the translator's “group loyalty factor”, which may reflect the national, political, ethnic, religious, social class, sex, etc assumptions of the translator

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1.5 Translation theory

• Linguistic Theory of Translation (by Catford, Nida) focuses

on finding the equivalence (of meaning, grammar,

• Translation as Cultural Events Theory (by Mary Snell

Hornby) sets up an integrated approach to translation

1.5 Translation theory

• Manipulation School of Translation (by Susan Bassnett) (School of UK and Holland) points out the power of

translation

• Deconstructionist Theories (by Edwin Gentzler) (USA)

forget source texts and regard translation as the second original

• Culture and Context Theories (by Peter Newmark) focus

on culture and context during the translation process As this is the most suitable for undergraduate students, the theory, which is introduced below, is based on Peter

Newmark's

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Translation theory

Translation theory, in a narrow sense, is concerned with the translation method appropriately used for a certain type of text, and it is therefore dependent on a functional theory of language

However, in a wider sense, translation theory is the body of knowledge that we have about translating, extending from general principles to guidelines, suggestions and hints

What translation theory does is

What translation theory does is,

first, to identify and define a translation problem (no

problem - no translation theory!);

second, to indicate all the factors that have to be taken into account in solving the problem;

third, to list all the possible translation procedures; finally,

to recommend the most suitable translation procedure, plus the appropriate translation

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1.6 Pre-translation considerations

1.6.1 READING THE TEXT

You begin the job by reading the original for two purposes: first, to understand what it is about; second, to analyze it

from a “translator's” point of view Understanding the text requires both general and close reading General reading is

to get the gist Close reading is required, in any challenging text, of the words both out of and in context

1.6 Pre-translation considerations

1.6.2 THE INTENTION OF THE TEXT

The intention of the text represents the SL (source

language) writer’s attitude to the subject matter Two texts may describe a battle or a riot or a debate, stating the same facts and figures, but the type of language used and even

the grammatical structures (passive voice, impersonal verbs often used to disclaim responsibility) in each case may be

evidence of different points of view

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1.6 Pre-translation considerations

1.6.3 THE INTENTION OF THE TRANSLTOR

Usually, the translator's intention is identical with that of

the author of the SL text But he may be translating an

advertisement, a notice, or a set of instructions to show his client how such matters are formulated and written in the source language, rather than how to adapt them in order to persuade or instruct a new TL (target language) readership And again, he may be translating a manual of instructions for a less educated readership, so that the explanation in his translation may be much larger than the “reproduction”

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1.6 Pre-translation considerations

1.6.4 TEXT STYLES

Following Nida, we distinguish four types of (literary or non-literary) text

1 Narrative: a dynamic sequence of events, where the emphasis is on the verbs

or, for English, “dummy” or “empty” verbs plus verb-nouns or phrasal verbs.

2 Description, which is static, with emphasis on linking verbs, adjectives,

adjectival nouns.

3 Discussion, a treatment of ideas, with emphasis on abstract nouns (concepts), verbs of thought, mental activity (“consider”, “argue”, etc.), logical argument and connectives.

4 Dialogue, with emphasis on colloquialisms and phaticisms.

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an informal, not colloquial style All this will help you to decide on the degree of formality, generality (or specificity) and emotional tone you must express when you work on the text.

1.6 Pre-translation considerations

1.6.6 THE QUALITY OF THE WRITING

The quality of the writing has to be judged in relation to the author’s intention and/

or the requirements of the subject matter If the text is well written, i.e., the right words are in the right places, with a minimum of redundancy, you have to regard every nuance of the author's meaning as having precedence over the reader's response If a text is well written the syntax will reflect the writer's personality - complex syntax will reflect subtlety, and plain syntax, simplicity A badly written text will be cluttered with stereotyped phrases; recently fashionable general words and probably poorly structured In this case, you have to correct the text.

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Session 2: THE PROCESS

OF TRANSLATION

Larson’s model (p.4)

Bell’s model (p.21)

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Newmark’s translation process

I Text analysis (before translating)

II The process of translating

I Text analysis

4 main steps:

 Read the Source Text (ST) to understand its

content and the author’s point of view

=> General and close reading

 Determine the ST’s intention

 Choose an appropriate translation method

 Identify possible/ potential problems

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1 Text intention

 Intention of the text : the

author’s attitude to the subject matter

 Intention of the translator

◦ In general: identical with that of the author

◦ Exception: shortening and/ or

over-translation for particular target readership

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4 Stylistic scales

◦ Formality

◦ Generality and difficulty

◦ Emotional tone

5 Setting of the text

◦ Where would the target text be published?

◦ Addition/ omission of titles/

subtitles/ subheadings, etc.?

◦ Is the TL readership identical

with the SL readership?

6 Quality of the ST

◦ Well or poorly written?

◦ What modification is needed?

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II Translating process

 2.1 The approach

1 You start translating sentence by

sentence , for say the paragraph or

chapter, to get the feel and the

feeling tone of the text , and then

you deliberately sit back, review the position , and read the rest of the SL text ;

2 You read the whole text two or

three times , and find the intention, register, tone, mark the difficult

words and passages and start

translating only when you have

taken your bearings

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Which approach depends on….

 Which of the two methods you choose may

depend on your temperament , or on whether

you trust your intuition (for the first method)

or your powers of analysis (for the second)

You may think: the first method more suitable

for a literary and the second for a technical or

an institutional text.

 The danger of the first method is that it may leave you with too much revision to do on the early part, and is therefore time wasting The second method (usually preferable) can be

mechanical

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II Translating process

 Translating process begins with

choosing a method of approach

Secondly, when we are translating,

we translate with four levels in mind: )

a) Textual level: literal translation

b) Referential level: visualize the text c) Cohesive level: structure, smooth

and emotional tone of the text

d) Natural level: the translation

makes sense and it reads

naturally

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(a) Students are arranged by class number and do

not move from classroom to classroom between classes They also stay together as a small group for their entire elementary, junior-high, or high-school levels in one location.

“do not” = ‘không thể’ OR ‘không phải’

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The draft proposal suggests that Vietnam would be able

to build a university that is internationally competitive within 10 years This is exactly the sort of over-optimistic and unachievable time target that was announced when the National Universities in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City were first set up by merging various local universities This historical lesson must be learnt and what is important now is to articulate a time frame that is consistent with the fact that no Vietnamese university is seriously ranked within ASEAN, let alone East Asia.

Satisfying the local demand for electricity from wind is not the end of the story Cheap electricity produced from wind can be used to electrolyse water, producing hydrogen, now widely viewed as the fuel of the future With automobiles powered by fuel cell engines ex pected

on the market within a few years and with hydrogen as the fuel of choice for these new engines, a huge new market is opening up.

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The cause of autism has also

been a matter of dispute

Though Asperger regarded it

as a biological defect of

affective contact—innate,

inborn, analogous to a

physical or intellectual defect

—Kanner tended to view it as

a psychogenic disorder, a

reflection of bad parenting,

and most especially of a

chillingly remote, often

professional, "refrigerator

mother."

time agreeing on the causes of autism On the one hand, Asperger saw the condition as representing a constitutional defect in the child's ability to make meaningful emotional contact with the external world On the other hand, Kanner regarded autism as a

The study suggests that people who smoke

cigarettes are continually damaging their cardiovascular system, which adapts in order to compensate for the effects of smoking It further states that people who do not smoke do not have the benefit of their system adapting to the smoke inhalation Consequently, the effects

of passive smoking are far greater on smokers than on smokers.

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