Shanghai foreign language education press
Quality of the translation
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- The translations future in the TL culture
| Quality of the translation
The translator has successfully realised his intention. Referentially, the main ideas of the SL text are reproduced. The language is rather more informal than it is in the original, which is in line with the difference between educated English and German. There are several instances of under-translation, sometimes inevitable in the context of different collocations and normal and natural usage. In fact the use of more general words helps to strengthen the pragmatic effect, since, being common and frequently used, they have more connotations and are more emotive than specific, let alone technical, words which are purely referential. Only in one or two instances is the translator's response inadequate. A 'vocative' text such as this one which uses much emotional language offers a wider range of translation solutions than many other text-types, particularly on the grammatical level and, provided it appears to fulfil its aims, its choice of language need not be strictly assessed. The propaganda and publicity areas of vocative (or social) texts normally require more creative or inventive translation than» say, informative texts. The translation's future in the TL culture Since this is an ephemeral but official text, the question of its 'enduring' merit does not arise. The translation has two interesting traces of the 'group loyalty factor' (Ivars Alksnis, 1983) which suggest that the translation (unconsciously?) puts the Federal Republic in a better light than does the original ('slower 1 for fauler; 'the Germans worked hard'). Glossary In some cases, I give terms a special sense which is I think appropriate, transparent and operational for translation. These terms are indicated with an asterisk, • ACRONYM : A word formed from the first letters or first syllables of its component words (e.g. UNO, BTT (q.v,), Komsomol). ACTUAL : The sense used in the particular context, as opposed to 'potential'. ADJECTIVAL CLAUSE (or RELATIVE CLAUSE ); Subordinate riause qualifying or describing a noun or pronoun (e.g. 'the man who came in'; 'the house (that) I saw 1 ; 'the man (who/whom) I saw'). " ADJECTIVAL NOUN: Noun formed from an adjective, (e.g. 'kindness', 'redness'), •' ANONYMOUS ' TEXT : (Delisle's (1981) term). A text where the name and status of the author is not important. Usually a run-of-the-mill 'informative' text, ' AUTHORITATIVE TEXT (or STATEMENT ); An official text, or a text where the status of the author carries authority, BACK - TRANSLATION TEST ( BTT ): Translating a stretch or lexical unit of TL text back into the SL, for purposes of comparison and correction. A useful test for assessing the semantic range of the SL passage. If the retranslation doesn't correspond with the SL text, a Translator can justify his version: (a) if it shows up a SL lexical gap; (b) the wider context supports a non-corresponding version. However, if the SL lexical unit has a clear one-to-one TL equivalent, a different version is usually hard to justify. BLEND (or' PORTMANTEAU 'WORD): The fusion oftwo words intoone(e.g. 'motel', 'brunch' and common technical Language). CASE - GAP : Where a ' CASE - tải về 2 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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