Shanghai foreign language education press
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In principle, a translational analysis of the SL text based on its comprehension is the first stage of translation and the basis of the useful discipline of translation criticism. Tn fact, such an analysis is, I think, an appropriate training for translators, since by underlining the appropriate words they will show they are aware of difficulties they might otherwise have missed. Thus you relate translation theory to 18 PRINCIPLES its practice. A professional translator would not usually make such an analysis explicitly, since he would need to take only a sample in order to establish the properties of a texi. A translation critic, however, after determining the general properties - first of the text and secondly of the translation (both these tasks would centre in the respective intentions of translator and critic) - would use the underlined words as a basis for a detailed comparison of the two texts. To summarise, you have to study the text not for itself but as something that may have to be reconstituted for a different readership in a different culture. CHAPTER 3 The Process of Translating INTRODUCTION My description of translating procedure is operational. It begins with choosing a method of approach. Secondly, when we are translating, we translate with four levels more or less consciously in mind: (1) the SL text level, the level of language, where we begin and which we continually (but not continuously) go back to; (2) the referential level, the level of objects and events, real or imaginary, which we progressively have to visualise and build up, and which is an essential part, first of the comprehension, then of the reproduction process; (3) the cohesive level, which is more general, and grammatical, which traces the train of thought, the feeling tone (positive or negative) and the various presuppositions of the SL text. This level encompasses both comprehension and reproduction: it presents an overall picture, to which we may have to adjust the language level; (4) the level of naturalness, of common language appropriate to the writer or the speaker in a certain situation. Again, this is a generalised level, which constitutes a band within which the translator works, unless he is translating an authoritative text, in which case he sees the level of naturalness as a point of reference to determine the deviation - if any - between the author's level he is pursuing and the natural level. This level of naturalness is concerned only with reproduction. Finally, there is the revision procedure, which may be concentrated or staggered according to the situation. This procedure constitutes at least half of the complete process. tải về 2 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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