Domestication and Foreignization in Translation

Free translation: The attempt to translate the ideas from one language to another with less concern about using the exact words of the original. (paraphrasing)

Another crucial problem the family has is the dynamic with Joey, Emilia, Hector, and Celia. Due to the fact that Celia has primarily stayed in the home, and as a result cannot speak English, it obstructs her ability to advocate in the fullest capacity for her grandson. One example is how Celia didn’t fully understand that Vicki’s diagnosis of Autism was the reason behind her daughter’s behavior. Translation are “words that have been changed from one language into a different language (Merriam-Webster, n.d.).” Based on the definition, it would be easy for valuable information to become distorted through the use of a translator.

In “Lost in Translation,” Lera Boroditsky writes to people within businesses or people who are wanting to invest in companies that work with other countries. The audience for her article is for designated for people who are interested in reading The Wall Street Journal, but within The Wall Street Journal it is directed mainly towards people that run a business. Boroditsky wrote this to express that language is important no matter what. She shares with the reader her views on the matter because her research has helped her realize that language has a big effect on people. Telling people about her research is beneficial and gives people an inside scoop on what happens around the world. Lera Boroditsky demonstrates her credibility to her

Throughout the years, we, translators, have been providing the mankind a service for them to communicate with each other. However, with the recent technologic advances, the necessity of translators have started to diminish little by little. Today in our mundane lives people use online translation websites powered by machine translation (MT) to ease their lives. Even so there are a lot of different views, which are mostly negative, about MT and its efficacy and future, as long as the technology advances, the function of MT will be enough to dominate the global market and this will be regarded as disqualification of translators. “Google translates more words in 1 minute than all human translators in one year!” and this statement won’t change

Science and math have an advantage when it comes to translation. Most of the signs, symbols, and lexeme associated with these fields are relatively universal. Other fields, especially the arts, are not nearly so fortunate. Translation becomes increasingly difficult if literary elements such as meter, verse, or rhyming are included in the source text, or if there are specific sounds associated with a culture.

Newmark (1988) considered translation as a matter of choice. His idea is that translators should have the skill which enables them to decide upon the most appropriate equivalence. Translator’s choice depends on certain criteria in accordance with a specific theory. Regarding this matter, one of these problems was about how to achieve equivalence or the equivalent effect of the political terms or expressions. Wrong choice giving the inadequate or inaccurate translation.

Some linguists claim that dealing with the process of finding equivalence is the most significant issue existing among translation processes and that is one of the mains principles of Western theory of translation. Translation is a mean of communication and in order for it to be effective it is crucial to establish appropriate equivalence between source and target text. Nida defines translation as “reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style”. (Nida, 1982, p. 12) It is conspicuous that equivalence is one of basic concepts of translation which cannot be overlooked. This complex phenomenon often becomes a measure which helps to define the process of translation. Number of researches stress on the important role of the equivalence for the translation process and it is hard to hard to overestimate the role of equivalence in translation. Use of equivalence translation help people to understand each other and enables achieving communication goals. Achieving maximum linguistic, grammar and structural equivalence is inevitably linked with certain restrictions and limitations but the skilful use of equivalents can undoubtedly benefit the results of translation act. Despite different approaches, the equivalence is an important

This portion of the chapter utilized an example of former President Carter’s improperly translated speech in Poland. While not his intent, the translator conveyed President Carter’s “lust for” polish women. This example, one of many, illustrates blunders that can occur in translation.

Originally published in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, Lera Boroditsky’s paper titled “Lost in Translation” analyzes the impact language has on thought. Formatted as more of a persuasive than truth seeking essay, Boroditsky begins by asking the reader if the language a person speaks shapes the way they think. This makes the reader believe as though she is truly trying to find an answer to this inquiry, but as the paper goes on, the reader is mostly introduced to evidence that supports Boroditsky’s stance and she merely touches upon the argument of the opposing side. Although Boroditsky does not include more counterarguments, “Lost in Translation” is a well written article which demonstrates that languages indeed shape the way people think through her use of the Rhetorical Triangle, inductive logic, and her stylistic choices.

What I experienced in speaking 7 different languages is that there are certain things that are just untranslatable between languages. In order to convey the same thought or message in different languages, I can’t directly translate word to word instead I have to use words that are appropriate in

Because just a translation is done by human it does not automatically that it is of better quality. Quality comes with education and experience and even than a person cannot know everything. Seeing that humans or machines cannot translate on its own, a combination of these two is necessary to get a qualitative and professional translation. In this way, four different and distinctive methods of translation can be recognized: translation done only by machines, translations done by machine translators which are later revised and edited by human translators, translations done by humans with the assistance of a machine translator and translations done by humans without the involvement of machines

Traditionally, approaches to translation studies have been focused upon the internal factors, i.e., the rules of linguistic conversion that guide the translation process. Translation is regarded as a process of seeking for linguistic equivalence between ST and TT, as Nida(1964) put it, the target text should be the closest natural equivalent to the original text.With the rise of “cultural turn” in translation studies, there emerges a new research trend that views translation as a culture-bound phenomenon, and places translation studies under a large historical and socio-cultural context.Various cultural theories begin to lend their forces to translation studies, resulting in a series of new approaches, such as cultural manipulative, feminism and postcolonial approaches to translation studies.Thus, translation is no longer viewed as a process of seeking for linguistic equivalence, but an interaction between two cultural systems.

Partly because of the oral traditions and partly due to the destructions of innumerable texts because of weather conditions, several problems arise when the earlier history of translation is attempted. The history of translation in India has, according to Ritā Kothāri, three stages: “oral, written and printed” with “no mechanism for tracing the oral tradition of translation”. Further, she adds that “The written tradition. . . is rooted in medieval India, around the fourteenth and fifteen centuries, when excerpts from the Sanskrit scriptures began to travel into the ‘regional’ languages” (Kothāri 2003: 6-7). However, it is believed that, as Krishnamurthy notes, the first requirement “for inter-language communication in the subcontinent probably arose through trade” (Krishnamurthy 1998: 464). Kautilya, known as Chānakya (c. 370-283 BC), a minister to Chandragupta Maurya (c. 340-298 BC), in the 4th century BC wrote “a treatise on statecraft” indicating “the status that the translator might have had during this period” without the use of a word translator but “scribes” (Ibid: 465). Thus, this activity of translation as a discourse offers India more opportunities due to its multilingual status, whereas the possibility of translation in the West is less due to its monolingual status. Thus, it is noticeable that multilingualism offers benefits to the practice of translation simultaneously

There are two critical elements you must know when translation a document and they cannot be stated too many times:

The second half of the last century have seen a great advance in translation field ( translation studies discipline ). Which make many translation scholars emphasis on the importantce of knowing the translation theory for the translators since the translation studies become a discipline.Mona Baker stats”