Translation and the problems of style. Theory of translation

THEORY OF TRANSLATION

Lectures and Seminars

Krasnodar

Table of contents

Lecture 1

Main Issues of Theory of Translation

1. The Concept of Translation: a Brief History

2. Is translation an art or a craft?

3. Theory of Translation as a Linguistic Science vs. Translation Studies as an Academic Discipline

4. Classification of the Types (Methods) of Translation

5. Ethics of Translation and Translator’s Competence

Lecture 2

Translation Process

1. Translation Strategy

2. Stages of Translating Process

3. The Problem of the Unit of Translation (UT)

Lecture 3

Equivalence and Adequacy in Translation

1. A Brief Outline of Approaches to Defining Equivalence in Translation

2. Types of Meaning: Lexical and Grammatical

- grammatical meaning;

- lexical meaning

a) types of lexical meaning:

- referential meaning;

- linguistic meaning;

- emotive meaning.

b) the degree of preservation of meaning:

- complete correspondence;

- partial correspondence;

- absence of correspondence.

3. Translation of Internationalisms and the Problem of False Friends

a) internationalisms (borrowings);

b) false friendsof a translator.

Lecture 4

Translation of Word Combinations

1. The Translation of Free Word Combination

a) the translation of attribute groups;

b) the translation of three-member word combinations;

c) the translation of multinuclear nomial combinations.

2. The Translation of Bound Word Combinations

a) the translation of set-expressions;

b) the translation of idioms.

Lecture 5

Grammatical Aspects of Translation

1. Ways of Translating the Passive Voice

2. Ways of Translating the Subjunctive Mood

3. Ways of Translating Modal Verbs

4. Ways of Translating the Non-Finite Forms of the Verb

- the functions of Participle I in the sentence

- the functions of Participle II in the sentence

- Predicative Constructions with the Participle

- the functions of the Gerund in the sentence

- the Predicative Constructions with the Gerund

- the functions of the Infinitive in the sentence

- the Objective-with-the-Infinitive Constructions

- the for-to- Infinitive Constructions

- the Subjective Infinitive Constructions

Lecture 6

Translation and the Problems of Style

1. Definition of style

2. Classification of functional styles:

a) the belles-lettres style;

b) the publicist style;

c) the style of official documents;

d) the language of scientific literature:

- the main ways of translating terms;

- the main ways of translating abbreviations.

e) the peculiarities of the newspaper style:

- the structure of a newspaper item;

- newspaper headlines;

- the translation of cliché

3. Translation Problems of Lexical Stylistic Devices

4. Translation Problems of Syntactical Stylistic Devices

a) translation of inversion;

b) translation of negative emphatic constructions;

c) translation of elliptical constructions;

d) some other means of expressing emphasis and prominence.

Lecture 7

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