Shanghai foreign language education press
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- Điều hướng trang này:
- Translators intention and general method
- Comparison of TL with SL text
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SL text analysis The SL text attempts to demonstrate the alternating periods of success and failure of three large social groups in contemporary French social history; it uses a Marxist but apparently non-partisan approach. The language is formal, educated, cool and non-technical; the text is well-written; it shows cultural overlap and always follows a natural sophisticated usage. One would expect semantic and communicative translation methods to largely coincide here, but since this is a rather general non-literary text, the communicative translation method should predominate. The text is authoritative in being written by an acknowledged authority, but it is not sacrosanct, its "expressive 1 aspect being unimportant. Translator's intention and general method The translator has attempted an accurate, smooth and natural version of the original, strengthening certain emphases and boldly over-translating many lexical details which, as he saw it, appeared to be too abstract, weak and vague in the original French, He uses phrasal verbs and present participles to achieve a rather more informal style than the original, Comparison of TL with SL text Grammar The sentence punctuation is preserved, thereby keeping sentences as units of translation. The larger clauses are mainly preserved, but passives and actives interchange in the main clauses of the first and second sentences (ecrivait - 4 it was remarked 1 ; ne pourrait plus etre porie - '(Nobody) could make'): the first sentence of the translation stresses Social history 1 ; the second is strengthened by the active voice. At the group rank, there are various verb shifts: 1.22 on n y est nullement assurg: 'without any certainty'. 274 METHODS 1.23 rtahleve'cue: 'the realities of life'. 1.24 la description: 'simply to describe 1 . 1.30 Nous avons concu: 'the conceptual aim 1 . 1.33 la place occupie: 'the position they occupy'. 1.36 revolution . . - de ces rapports: 'the way these relationships have changed 1 . Note several cases where French verbs (jestent, subsistent, liennent a, aboutit a) are rendered by 'is' or 'are'. 'To be 1 and 'to have' are English all-purpose verbs! Lexis The sense is sharpened in: 1.4 sevire: 'drastic'. 1.7 orientees: 'devoted'. 1.8 grandement: 'enormously'. 1.10 certaines: 'several'. 1.11 unepartie: 'muchof. L13 beaucoup d faire: 'plenty of scope for further research'. 1.15 importantes: 'principal'. 1.17 ledomaine: 'scope'. 1.18 disir: 'ambition'. 1.20 tropsouvent: 'simply 7 . 1.23 exprimenr. 'reflect*. 1.29 les individus: 'the people he is reading about*. 1.33 dejinis: 'classified 1 . 1.40 position: 'social position'. 1.42 leur domination: 'a sort of domination'. 1.46 autrefois preponderant*: 'that once dominated the scene', 1.49 bien-itre: 'thegood things of life 1 . 1.49 sinon: 'even*. Some of this strengthens the original, filling it out without changing the sense and giving it greater vigour, 'Scope' and the 'good things of life' demonstrate French lexical gaps. Only in the case of une partie (*much of), domination ('a sort of domination') and nop souvent ('simply 1 ) does the chrnge seem unnecessary. De la revendication au conservatisme, puis a la reaction el a la peur sociale demands bold recasting, and the translator's is consistent with his general method. A closer less tải về 2 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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