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Translation theory

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANSLATION

AND INTERPRETATION?

“Most people think that translation and interpretation are the same thing

and that the mere knowledge of a language implies the ability to go from

one language to another. Translation implies carefully analyzing the

message given within the context of a particular linguistic code and

transferring this message into another written linguistic code.

Interpretation, on the other hand, means doing the same but orally and

simultaneously.”

In general, messages to be translated are written and translated version

are also written. Messages to be interpreted are generally transmitted

orally and the interpretations are rendered orally. This difference in the

vehicle of original message transmission implicates a difference in the

time that will be available for comprehending the original message and

the time available for rendering the message into another language. The

time factor in turn affects the different skills and strategies that will be

called upon.

There are four basic types of translation and interpretation. The present

writer has ordered these as follows for the purpose of discussion:

1. Prepared translation.

2. Sight translation.

3. Consecutive interpretation.

4. Simultaneous interpretation.

The order should be read as hierarchical in that the discussion of each

type is meant to assume the cumulative skills and strategies of the

former, while the reverse may not be the case. Of course each type

involves certain strategies more than others. For example, it appears

that interpretation involves the skills of translation plus other skills

particular to it, while translation does not generally call upon all the skills

necessary for interpretation.

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