A Brief Introduction to Translation/Interpreting

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A Brief Introduction to Translation/Interpreting
Unit 1 Introduction
School of English and Education Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies Yi
Zongyong???
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Contact Details

• YI Zongyong (Eugene) ???
• Telephone [phone]
• Mobile [phone]
• Email yzongyong_at_oa.gdufs.edu.cn
• yizongyong_at_qq.com

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Assessment of the course

• Attendance 5
• Class performance 5
• Assignment 30-40
• Final exam 50-60

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Course Arrangement
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• ????(don't flip flop)
• ????(don't get sidetracked)
• ???(don't sway back and forth)
• ???(no dithering)
• ??????(no major changes)
• ???Don't fuck around!
• ????Don't fuck with me!

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Definitions

• 1. rendering something written or spoken from one
  language into another
• 2. faithful representation in one language of
  what is written or spoken in another
• 3. replacement of the information of the source
  language by its counterpart of the target
  language.
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Characteristics

• 1. Linguistics Semeiotogic (symbols or signs)
  nature
• 2. Cultural nature
• 3. Communicative nature
• 4. Science or art?

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Put the following into Chinese

1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. Honesty is the best policy.
3. No news is good news.
4. Learn to crawl before you can walk.
5. Look before you leap.
6. Out of sight, out of mind.

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The Golden Rules of Translation

• ? being faithful to the original
• ? being explicit and smooth
• ? being elegant in words

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Basic Qualifications required of a good
translator/interpreter

• 1. Knowledge Good bilingual ability Extensive
  background knowledge ---- good understanding
  expressing
• 2. Skills Good command of the methods used in
  translation and the theory guiding translation
• 3. Experience through training and practice
• 4. Attitude Professional ethics --- stay calm
  sober responsible loyal

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Fundamentals

• meaning transference
• acceptability
• (language culture)
• similarity
• (content, manner, literal form, style)

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Principles and Techniques

• 1. literal translation and free translation
• --Never trouble trouble until trouble
•  troubles you.??????,????????(??????)
• 2. domestication and alienation
• --Love me, love my dog. ???????
• --???(??? Vs Hawks)

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Principles and Techniques

• 3. dynamic equivalence
• similar or equivalent effect or response
• -Eugene Nida
• 4. Functionalism (skopos theory)

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Principles and Techniques

• 4. Alexander Tytler Three principles
• a. The translation should give a complete
  transcript of the ideas of the original work.
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• b. The style and manner of writing should be of
  the same character with that of the original.
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• c. The translation should have all the ease of
  original composition.
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A proficiency in English How do you understand
the following?

• 1. Once bitten, twice shy.
• 2. A stitch in time saves nine.
• 3. Great minds think alike.
• 4. When the cat is away, the mice will play.
• 5. Little strokes fell great oaks.
• 6. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
• 7. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

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The 3 stages

• Understanding
• Rendering (representing)
• Proofreading

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A proficiency in Chinese How do you understand
the following?

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GDUFS Motto /Mission

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• -Moral integrity, exemplary behaviour, and
  conversance with both Eastern and Western
  learning
• -Moral integrity, practical action and
  cross-cultural knowledge.
• -Moral integrity, outstanding performance and
  learning across cultures
• -Strive for Moral Integrity, Noble Conduct and
  Conversance with Cross-cultural Learning

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How to translate the following?

• He allowed the father to be overruled by the
  judge,and declared his own son guilty?

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Which one is the best?

• He allowed the father to be overruled by the
  judge,and declared his own son guilty?
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Course Books

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Reference Books

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More reference books

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Homework

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• 2. Translate Passage 1