1. Unit A1 What is Translation?
Meltem CAMLIBEL

2. Q1: Is translation a process or a product?
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Translation:
The act or an instance of translating
It relates to translation as a process.It focuses on the role of the translator in taking the original or source text and turning it into a text in another language.
2) A written or spoken expression of the meaning of a word, speech, book, etc. in another language.
It relates to the product. It centers on the concrete translation product produced by the translator.

3. ROMAN JAKOBSON’S TYPOLOGY
Intralingual translation
translation within the same language, which can involve rewording or paraphrase.
e.g. Football / soccer & Mummy / mommy
Interlingual translation
translation from one language to another.
Intersemiotic translation
translation of the verbal sign by a non verbal sign.
Q2: Can you guess the meanings of these types?

4. The area of Translation
The process of transferring a written text from source language to target language, conducted by a translator, or translators, in a specific socio-cultural context.
2. The written product, or target text,
which results from that process and
which functions in the socio-cultural
context of the target language.
The cognitive, linguistic, visual,
cultural and ideological phenomena
which are an integral part of 1 and 2.

5. Translation Studies includes
* equivalence between items in source language and target language
* the notion of translatability
Translation Studies are divided into
Pure ‘Translation Studies’
encompasses descriptive studies of existing translations and general and partial translation theories
Applied Studies
covering translator training,translator aids and translation criticism.

6. The objectives of Pure ‘Translation Studies’
To describe the phenomena of translating and translation as they manifest themselves in the world or our experience
To establish general principles by means of which these phenomena can be explained and predicted.

7. General Laws of translation
The law of growing standardization- target texts generally display less linguistic variation than source texts
The law of interference- common source text lexical and syntactic patterns tend to be copied, creating unusual patterns in the target text.

8. Map of disciplines interfacing with Translation Studies
Poetics
Rhetoric
Narratology
Comparative literature
Semantics
Pragmatics
Social linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Discourse analysis
Literary Studies
Linguistics
Film studies
History
Gender studies
Translation
Cultural studies
Philosophy
Hermeneutics
Poststructuralism
deconstruction
Language Engineering
Terminology
Lexicology
multimedia

9. Unit A2 Translation Strategies

10. Form and Content Roman Jakobson
‘All cognitive experience and its classification is conveyable in any existing language’
only poetry ‘by definition is untranslatable’ since in verse the form of words contributes to the construction of the meaning of the text.

11. These statements express a classical dichotomy in translation between sense/content and form/style.
The sense may be translated while the form often cannot.
The point where form begins to contribute to sense is ‘untranslatability’ (poetry, song and advertising)

12. To illustrate;
In the published translations of Harry Potter, translators have resorted to altering the original name in order to create the required pun: In French, the name becomes ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor’ which gives ‘Je suis Voldemort’ as well as suggesting an enigmatic fate with the use of the name Elvis and the play on words ‘jeudusor’ or ‘jeu du sort’, meaning ‘game of fate’. In this way the French translator, Jean- François Menard, has preserved the content by altering the form.

13. Literal and Free Free translation
focuses on the content of the target text rather than the form, which means that the same content is.
Word-for-word translation
preservation of word order and as literal translation as possible of individual words, including cultural words.
Literal translation
apart from as literal as possible translation of individual words, grammatical structures are converted into the nearest target language equivalents.

15. TRANSLATIONESE
When a target text is overly close or influenced by the source text or source language. The result known as ‘translationese’ which is related to translation universals due to common translation phenomena such as interference, explicitation and domestication.

16. Comprehensibility and Translatability
* a relative notion and has to do with the extent to which meaning can still be adequately expressed across languages .
* But, for this to be possible, meaning has to be understood not only in terms of what the source text contains, but also and equally significantly, in terms of such factors as communicative purpose, target audience and purpose of translation.

17. Q3: Do you think everthing is translatable?
Jakobson
‘yes, to a certain extent’ as a criterion target text must be comprehensible.
Some issues are linked to the strategies of literal and free translation, form and content areas such as text type and audience.

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