Translation Studies - Susan Bassnett

Question 1

When was Translation studies by Susan Bassnett originally published?

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1980

Question 2

Book: Structuralism and Semiotics

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Terence Hawkes

Question 3

Essay: The Status of Linguistics as a Science

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Edward Sapir

Question 4

Who describes language as a modelling system

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Yuri Lotman (Russian)

Question 5

‘No language can exist unless it is steeped in the context of culture; and no culture can exist which does not have at its centre, the structure of natural language.’ Who said?

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Yuri Lotman

Question 6

Edward Sapir Hypothesis states

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Language influences thought rather than the reverse.

People from different cultures think differently because of differences in their languages.

Question 7

‘On Linguistic Aspects of Translation’ is an article by?

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Roman Jakobson

Question 8

The three types of translation according to Jacobson are?

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Intralingual translation (rewording)
Interlingual translation (translation proper)
Intersemiotic translation (transmutation)

Question 9

Who claims that all poetic art is untranslatable?

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Roman Jakobson

Question 10

Georges Mounin is —— theorist

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French

Question 11

Who perceives translation as a series of

operations of which the starting point and the end product are significations and function within a given culture?

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Georges Mounin

Question 12

Illustrate the stages of decoding and recoding according to Eugene Nida’s model

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• Source language text
• analysis- transfer
• restructuring
• receptor language translation

Question 13

According to Alexander Lyudskanov, semiotic transformation is?

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The notion of a word is isolated and replaced with the word carrying the same notion (Jakobson would call this interlingual transposition)

Question 14

Who insisted that any contracting or omitting of difficult expressions in translating was immoral?

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Jiří Levý

Question 15

Essay: Can metaphor be translated

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Menachem Dagut

Question 16

Who distinguishes between ‘translation’ and ‘reproduction’

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Menachem Dagut

Question 17

Who distinguishes between ‘literal’ and ‘free’ translation

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J C Catford (Scottish)

Question 18

Popovič distinguishes four types in his definition of translation equivalence

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(1) Linguistic equivalence (word for word
translation)
(2) Paradigmatic equivalence (grammar
(3) Stylistic (translational) equivalence,
(4) Textual (syntagmatic) equivalence (form and shape)

Question 19

The notion of achieving ‘expressive identity’ between the SL and TL texts belong to?

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Popovic

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Who distinguishes between the study of translation as a process and as a product

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Albrecht Neubert (German)

Question 21

Who claims that the precise definition of ‘equivalence’ in mathematics is a serious obstacle to its use in translation theory.

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Raymond van den Broeck (Dutch)

Question 22

Two types of equivalence according to Eugene Nida

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Formal and Dynamic

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Define formal equivalence

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Focuses attention on the message itself, in both form and content. Concerned with such correspondences as poetry to poetry, sentence to sentence, and concept to concept.

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Define dynamic equivalence

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The relationship between receiver and message should aim at being the same as that between the original receivers and the SL message

Question 25

Who translated Homer into English Prose?

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E V Rieu

Question 26

E.V.Rieu’s deliberate decision to translate Homer into English prose because of the significance of the epic formin Ancient Greece could be considered equivalent to the significance of prose in modern Europe is a case of what equivalence

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Dynamic Equivalence

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The notion of an invariant core is by?

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Popovic

Question 28

Who feels that the use of the term equivalence is ‘perverse’, since to ask for sameness is to ask too much?

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James Holmes

Question 29

Who argues that the translator of a literary text is not | concerned with establishing equivalence of natural language but of artistic procedures?

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Dionýz Ďurišin (Slovak)

Question 30

Who views that the literary text has both an autonomous and a communicative character

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Jan Mukařovský (Czech)

Question 31

Who wrote 'Stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais' (A Comparative French—English Stylistics)

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Vinay and Darbelnet

Question 32

Who authored 'After Babel: aspects of linguistics and translation'?

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George Steiner

Question 33

Who authored the essay 'On the Principles of Translation' in 1791

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Alexander Tytler Fraser

Question 34

Sous I’invocation de Saint Jérome is written by?

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Valery Larbaud in 1946

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Who wrote 'English Translation Theory 1650-1800'

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T R Steiner

Question 36

Which are the four major English translators analyses by F.O.Matthiesson

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Hoby, North, Florio and | Philemon Holland

Question 37

Who did Timothy Webb study as a translator?

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Shelley

Question 38

‘If I render word for word, the result will sound uncouth, and if compelled by necessity I alter anything in the order or wording, I shall seem to have departed from the function of a translator.’ who said?

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Cicero

Question 39

'A theme that is familiar can be made your own property so long as you do not waste your time on a hackneyed treatment; nor should you try to render your original word for word like a slavish translator, or in imitating another writer plunge yourself into difficulties from which shame, or the rules you have laid down for yourself, prevent you from extricating yourself' who said?

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Horace

Question 40

Who commissioned the St Jerome translations of the Bible in AD 384?

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Pope Damascus

Question 41

Which was the first translation of the complete Bible into English?

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The Wycliffe Bible, produced between 1380 and 1384

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Who put forth the theory 'Dominion by Grace'?

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John Wycliffe

Question 43

Which was the second English translation of the Bible?

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William Tyndale (1494–1536)

Question 44

Tyndale translated the Bible from which languages?

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Greek and Hebrew

Question 45

Which version of the Bible served as the basis for | Martin Luther’s 1522 German version?

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Erasmus (Dutch) published the first Greek New | Testament in Basle in 1516. This was the version used by Martin Luther.

Question 46

When did Martin Luther translate his version of the Bible?

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1522

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Which language was the Martin Luther Bible in?

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German

Question 48

Who wrote the Circular Letter on Translation of 1530?

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Martin Luther

Question 49

What are the two things that Martin Luther claims to use in his Bible translation indiscriminately?

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übersetzen (to translate) and verdeutschen (to Germanize)

Question 50

Who declared that the purpose of translating was to help the English people to recover from the devastation of the Danish invasions that had laid waste the old monastic centres of learning and had demoralized and divided the kingdom.

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King Alfred

Question 51

Who wrote Cura Postoralis (a handbook for parish priests)

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King Alfred

Question 52

Two areas of study established by Quintillian's Institutio Oratorio?

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1) Trivium (grammar, rhetoric and dialectic) 2) Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), ps. Trivium is the basis for philosophical knowledge

Question 53

Who wrote the article on vulgarization and translation?

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Gianfranco Folena

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The first author to formulate a theory on translation?

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Etienne Dolet

Question 55

Who was killed for heresy for mistranslating Plato?

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Etienne Dolet

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who wrote 'How to translate from one language to another'

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Etienne Dolet

Question 57

Name one great translator of Iliad by Homer?

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George Chapman

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who wrote the 'Seven Books of the Iliad'?

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George Chapman

Question 59

Who wrote ‘To Sir Richard Fanshawe upon his Translation of Pastor Fido’ (1648) and 'The Destruction of Troy' (1656)

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Sir John Denham

Question 60

What was a term for a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century

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Pindarics

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Who authored Pindarique Odes (1656)?

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Abraham Cowley

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Who notes that Cowley’s preface was taken | as the manifesto of the ‘libertine translators of the later seventeenth century’?

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T.R.Steiner

Question 63

Who wrote the preface to Ovid's Epistles?

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John Dryden

Question 64

Give three problems of translation by John Dryden

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(1) metaphrase, or turning an author word by word, and line by line, from one language into another; (2) paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the Ciceronian ‘sense for-sense’ view of translation; (3) imitation, where the translator can abandon the text of the original as he sees fit.

Question 65

Who uses the metaphor of the translator/portrait painter, that was to reappear so frequently in the eighteenth century

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John Dryden

Question 66

According to Dryden, Which is the most balanced mode for translation?

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Paraphrase

Question 67

Dedication of the Aeneis (1697) was written by?

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John Dryden

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Life of Pope is written by?

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Samuel Johnson

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Who wrote 'The Principles of Translation' - the first book written on the translation process / first theory on translation

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Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1791

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who said a translator must ‘adopt the very soul of his author, which must speak through his own organs’

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Alexander Tytler

Question 71

Le romantisme dans la littérature européenne (1948) is a work on European romanticism by?

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Paul Van Tieghem

Question 72

Who distinguishes between Fancy and Imagination

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Coleridge (1772–1834) in his Biographia | Literaria (1817)

Question 73

Which translator is known to have retained Dante's Terza Rima in his translations?

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A.W. Schlegel

Question 74

Who said "Imagination is the Divine Body in Every Man?

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William Blake

Question 75

On Translating Homer is a lecture by?

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Mathew Arnold

Question 76

Who wrote the article ‘Modes of Translation’ (1953) which raised the level of the discussion of translation in English, and has been described as ‘the first publication in the West to deal with translation and translations from a modern, interdisciplinary view and to set out a program of research for scholars concerned with them as an object of study'

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James MacFarlane

Question 77

Who coined the term intertextuality?

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Julia Kristeva

Question 78

Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia) was written by?

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Elio Vittorini

Question 79

André Lefevere's seven different strategies of translation are?

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(1) phonemic (2) Literal (3) Metrical (4) Poetry into prose (5) Rhymed Translation (6) Blank verse translation (7) Interpretation

Question 80

‘The Poet as Translator’ is a text by?

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J P Sullivan

Question 81

Homage to Sextus Propertius is a book by?

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Ezra Pound ( a book about world war I)