1. Meet the students: Tue. H. 11:00 Room 3.05
Lingue e Culture Straniere - LCMC Enrico Grazzi, Lingua e Traduzione Inglese 2 (L-11) A.A Mon. 13:00/15:00 Room B
Tue. 09:00/11:00 Room 21
Meet the students: Tue. H. 11:00 Room 3.05
Textbook:
Munday, J Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and
Applications. 4th edition. London & New York: Routledge.
ISBN (pbk)

2. Notes on translation

3. The Book of Kells, Erat antem hora tercia, Trinity College, Dublin
In the beginning:
literary and
religious
translations
The Book of Kells, Erat antem hora tercia, Trinity College, Dublin

4. Sonia Colina (2003): “(…) A translated text belongs to two superimposed communicative contexts”.
One surrounding the text produced for Target-culture receivers
One surrounding the source text receivers.

5. Preface to Ovid’s Epistles, Translated by Several Hands (1680)
John Dryden
‘Tis almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time (…) In short, the verbal copier is encumbered with so many difficulties at once that he can never disentangle himself from all. He is to consider at the same time the thought of his author, and his words, and to find out the counterpart to each in another language (…)
Preface to Ovid’s Epistles, Translated by Several Hands (1680)

6. John Dryden on Translation
Imitation
(loose approximation of an author’s emotions or passions)
Metaphrase
(word-for-word translation)
Paraphrase
(expresses the sense of the original without being enslaved by the words)

7. Translation Equivalence
J.C.Catford (1965) Translation may be defined as follows: the replacement of textual material in one language (SL) by equivalent textual material in another language (TL).
Nida and Taber (1969) Transalting consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style.

8. K. Reiss (1971) Translation-related text-typology
Language
function
Representation
Expression
Appeal
Language dimension
Logical
Aesthetic
Dialogic
Text type
Informative
Expressive
Operative

10. From John Kerry’s speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention
“I was born in Colorado, in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, when my dad was a pilot in World War II.  Now, I'm not one to read into things, but guess which wing of the hospital the maternity ward was in?  I'm not making this up.  I was born in the West Wing!”
From John Kerry’s speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention

11. Prospective translation
a. “In Parliament he fought for equality, but he sent his son to Winchester”
“In Parliament he fought for equality, but he sent his son to [the school in] Winchester”
b. “When his father died his mother couldn’t afford to send him to Eton anymore.”
“When his father died his mother couldn’t afford to send him to Eton [, that expensive private school which still produces most of the elite in politics and business]”

12. Hans J. Vermeer (1986):
(…) a translation is not the transcoding of words or sentences from one language into another, but a complex action in which someone provides information about a text under new functional, cultural and linguistic conditions and in a new situation, whereby formal characteristics are imitated as far as possible.

13. Nord (1977): Situational features to be identified through ST analysis
Function of ST
Addressees of ST
Time of reception
Place of reception
Medium of transmission
Motive for production of ST (e.g. to announce a conference)

14. Translation activities, step by step
Pre-translation (identify pragmatic factors of the ST/TT)
Focus on unclear terminology
Focus on language sections (translation difficulties and problems)
Post-translation review (professional awareness)

15. Functional and textual adaptations
Componential translation grading criteria
Holistic rating of translational competence
Meaning
Target language
Vocabulary
Functional and textual adaptations
Revision process