VL7

Question 1

Translation

Answer 1

Mediation between two languages, always been part of human history

Question 2

Translation linguistic context

Answer 2

• grammatical/lexical contrasts between source (SL) and target language (TL)
• typological distance between SL and TL

Question 3

Cultural context translation

Answer 3

• precarious/priviledged = bias
• translation between languages of unequal global reach/status = power hierarchies

Question 4

New technological frontiers translation

Answer 4

• people depend on machine translators
• machines calculate statistical likelihood of elements appearing next to each other
• no sense of meaning/grammar, just stochastic

Question 5

Simplification

Answer 5

Lower lexical density and lower type/token ratios

Question 6

Explication

Answer 6

More explicit coherence relations, less pronominal reference, fewer general nouns
= making something clear (more details/explanations)

Question 7

Normalisation

Answer 7

Bring elements in line with more „nominal“ syntax of German

Question 8

convergence

Answer 8

Less stylistic variability and creativity