translation studies + Mary Snell-Hornby: Translation studies: an
integrated approach + Mona Baker/Susan Bassnett in the UK + Eugene Nida: Toward a science of
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+ The objectives of the ‘pure’ areas of research are:
+ 1.the description of the phenomena of translation (descriptive translation theory)
+ 2.the establishment of general principles to explain and predict such phenomena.
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Oriented Oriented Oriented Training Aids
Criticism
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+ Medium area rank text-type time problem
+ restricted restricted restricted restricted restricted restricted
+ The term was suggested by the Dutch-based US scholar James Holmes in his key defining paper delivered in 1972
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+ 1972 conference on comparative literature + James Holmes: the name and nature of
transalting/Edward Gentzler in the US
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Translation Studies
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+ Pure
Applied
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+ Theoretical Descriptive(DTS)
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+ al Partial
Product Process Function Translator Translation Translation
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+ A term used to describe the ‘discipline which concerns itself with problems raised by the production and description of translations.’(Lefevere:1978)
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+ Examination of: + (1) the product (product-oriented DTS): + description, analysis, comparison of ST and TT + (2) the function(function-oriented DTS): + In the recipient sociocultural situation, i.e. context rather
+ Area-restricted theories: specific languages or groups of languages and/or cultures, e.g., contrastive linguistics and stylistics
+ Rank-restricted theories: specific level of the word or sentence; + Text-type-restricted theories: specific types or genres, e.g., literary,
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+ Mapping of translation studies + Different definitions of translation + A brief history of translation + Methodologies of translation + The process of Chinese/English translation + Art or science + Translatability + Creativity vs conformity + Translation and language learning + Encyclopedic requirement for a translator
+ “The body of knowledge that we have and have still to have about the process of translating” (Newmark)
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+ Terms used to refer to a specific attempt to explain in a systematic way some or all of the phenomena related to translation.
than text + (3) the process(process-oriented DTS): + The psychology of translation, the blackbox,
TAP( thinking aloud protocols)
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+ Medium-restricted theories: machine/computer; written/spoken; consecutive/simultaneous
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+ A Term used to refer to the entire discipline of Translation Studies. Thus Popovic defines translation Theory as a “discipline engaged in the systematic study of translation”, whose task consists of “modeling the translational process and text”. (Shuttleworth)