Translation – Part V
Posted on 2011-09-28 12:30:44
Isomorphs and translations. There are translations and translations, but some isomorphs other than simply different physical forms can be called versions, but not translations. Transliteration of one form of written text into another, or transcriptions of spoken sounds in some form of phonetic notation are of course simple isomorphs, as we have seen(p.n7ff).Whenanancient...
Translation – Part IV
Posted on 2011-09-20 05:31:09
Besides the translation or omission of obligatory categories, there is also a common tendency, unless one is on guard against it, to translate the form class of an expression into one of the same or similar form class: noun for noun, verb for verb, etc. Other things being equal, this will of course be a contributing factor for fidelity. But since other...
Translation – Part III
Posted on 2011-09-20 05:22:19
Dimensions of fidelity. A distinction is often made between semantic translation and functional translation. For example, the sentence: Ne vous derangez pas, je vous en prie! can be given a semantic translation as 'Do not disturb yourself, I pray you!' or functionally as 'Please don't bother!' The translation is functional because that is what one...
Translation – Part II
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2. Size and structure of units of translation. There is practically no upper limit to the size of a unit to be translated, from a speech, an essay, a play, a novel, or a treatise, to a whole encyclopedia. But for purposes of studying the nature and technique of translation, one need not go beyond what can be called a discourse, which may only be a...
Translation – Part I
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Translation – Part I Translation is as old as Babel, and plays a greater part in languages in contact than either foreign language study or bilingualism, though these latter aspects are usually involved in translation. It is often assumed that for any given text—text in the linguistic as well as graphic sense—in one language there is one correct...
Minority languages and Bilingualism: Practical aspects of bilingualism
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Minority languages and Bilingualism: Practical aspects of bilingualism While bilingualism is a social fact, some educationists claim that it is a hindrance to the child's mental growth, as it hinders the development of one consistent system of verbalizing. This is no doubt true when a child changes from one language into another and forgets all the...
Minority languages and Bilingualism: Bilingual situations
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Minority languages and Bilingualism: Bilingual situations In problems of foreign language study we were considering primarily monolinguals who have occasional contact with other languages. A minority language is the language of a group, often identified by national or racial origin, who speak a language other than the language used by the majority,...
Language As a Part of Life
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We live so closely with language that we get the illusion that language is something sui generis. It is so much a part of life, that it seems as if it were something apart from life. We use language during so much of our conscious life, that we are not languageconscious most of the time, and then only when something goes wrong or something unusual...
Sino-Tibetan Languages and Languages of South-Eastern Asia
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Sino-Tibetan Languages and Languages of South-Eastern Asia Centred in China is the great Sino-Tibetan family of languages, which is conventionally divided into two branches: Tibeto-Burman and Chinese. The chief languages of the Tibeto-Burman group are Tibetan, spoken by some 6 million people in Tibet and China (though Tibetan is strictly not one language),...
Major sound changes from Proto-Indo-European to Old English
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Major sound changes from Proto-Indo-European to Old English by Prof. Dr. Gunnel Tottie Phonological issues are not the major concern of this paper. Nevertheless, sound changes are an important source for the explanation of changes in morphology. I therefore briefly sketch the most relevant part of the phonological development from Proto-Indo-European...
The Altaic Family and Languages of North-Eastern Asia
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The Altaic Family and Languages of North-Eastern Asia by YUEN REN CHAO, Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley The Altaic family contains three branches: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus. The Turkic branch stretches over a vast area, from the Arctic Ocean in northern Siberia to the Mediterranean...
Indo-European and Minor Languages of Europe
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Indo-European and Minor Languages of Europe By YUEN REN CHAO, Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley As we have seen, languages can often be grouped together in families the members of which are believed to have descended from a common ancestor. Where evidence is abundant the relationship...
