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Translation Criticism Projects
Translation Criticism Projects
This is a list of my projects for the class Lit47: Translation Criticism
**Translation criticism** refers to the evaluation of a translated work by following certain translation principles and using specific methods under particular social conditions. It aims to avoid arbitrariness, blindness, wild criticism, and imitative comments. In essence, it involves systematically studying, evaluating, and interpreting different aspects of translated works, closely related to literary criticism and translation theory.
Translation critics assess the quality of the target text, considering its semantic and pragmatic equivalence to the source text, as well as the translator's approach and decision-making process. While some debate whether it should be a separate field from translation theory, the goal remains to raise awareness of the intricacies involved in translation and assess whether the translator has achieved their objectives.
When paraphrasing, you do not translate in another language but you make an "intralinguistic translation", meaning that you repeat the same ideas, but using different words.
In this project, we will take 2 different articles (one in English and the other one in Spanish), and paraphrase them.
The role that translation plays remains to be examined once that, as a finished work, it becomes part of the semiosphere, and is received by the culture that the translator has considered the "receiving" one. We are in the field of the critique of translation.
In this project, we will take the same 2 articles from project 1A (one in English and the other one in Spanish), and actually translate them this time.
In contrast to translation strategies (the translators’ global approach or plan of action on a given text, according to their intention), translation procedures are used for sentences and smaller units of language within that text.
In this project, we'll take a chapter from an online resource about translation that contains both an English and a Spanish version, and compare the different versions.
Translation procedures are methods applied by translators when they formulate an equivalence for the purpose of transferring elements of meaning from the Source Text (ST) to the Target Text (TT). (Delisle).
In this project, we'll take a chapter from an online resource about translation that contains both an English and a Spanish version, and compare the different versions.
So, the same as Project 2A, but a different chapter.
Part 3, Ch27 - Free translation (part two)
In this project, we'll be taking a few paragraphs from a novel originally written in Spanish, and translate them into English.
In this project, we'll be taking a few paragraphs from a novel originally written in English, and translate them into Spanish.
Differences between the various types of interpretation, mainly between the techniques of consecutive interpretation and the techniques of simultaneous interpretation.
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of language in written form.
In this project, we'll take the subtitles from a video in Spanish, then create our own translated subtitles in English, and analyze the difference.
In the interlinguistic field interpretations are very different from translation, but audiovisual translation is a mixed reality, where subtitling uses translation techniques rather than interpretation techniques. Interpretation always requires an immediate answer, while the translator of documents, written or audio-visual, has usually time to consider his product. By contrast, Interpreters must answer immediately.
In this project, we'll take the subtitles from a video in English, then create our own translated subtitles i Spanish, and analyze the difference.
Although legal documents in all languages address similar issues, they do so in distinctive ways, because of the different languages in which they are constructed and the cultural differences of the societies in question and of their legal systems. A legal translation is particularly challenging not only because of the culture-laden nature of legal discourse but also because of a need for formal correspondence between equally authoritative versions of the same text.
In this project, we'll take an international treaty with both English and Spanish versions, and make a comparison.
Both literality and functionality are demanded of the translation: literality, because accuracy of semantic substitution is what lends the law credibility as a single entity; and functionality, since the law must (by definition of justice) perform the same function for all those who live under it. But […] literality and functionality tend to pull in opposite directions. ( 9 : 19)In progress.
In this project, we'll take a local legal document in Spanish, translate it to English, and analyze it.
A fact is that songs are translated for different reasons, various ways, and for different applications. There are several questions as well, such as where would the translation be used? A semantic prose translation will suffice if the intention it merely to understand the lyrics of the song. But if the song is to be sung in another language, the translator has to be concerned about the singability of the translated text. In this case, priority is placed on matching the lyrics with the music. The translator has to consider the features related to performance and music, including Singability, Rhyme, Rhythm, and Naturalness.
In this project, we'll take a song that was not originally written in English or Spanish, but has adaptations in both English and Spanish, and analyze the adaptations along with the translations.
Course Conclusion
Course Conclusion
This was an interesting course. It was not just about noticing translation in different fields, but also about observing the different ways each field uses different techniques to adapt to the target language. You can’t translate a novel the same way you translate a conversation, and you definitely can’t translate those the same way you translate a song (you can, but then you risk losing the rhythm and the rhyming scheme).
The most interesting one for me was Optional 1. When adapting a song, more often than not, you’ll lose the rhyming scheme or the rhythm, so you have to get creative on how you reorder the words. You can have an entire stanza completely reorganized just so that the words fit properly with the scheme, and with the rhyme. This is an obstacle you don’t have in other translation fields.
The progression was helpful. Starting up with simple paraphrasing and translation, and progressively complicating things with literary translation and then legal translation, will help ease into the concepts covered by the course. That being said, if the number of students attending the class is this big, I would have fewer students in the class, or more time slots available. That way, they all have a fair amount of time to present their projects, especially those who start late due to system issues.
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