Translation As A Science Or Art?

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)

In most cases, texts that are translated lose meaning, as sometimes words from a native language cannot be translated exactly into a desired language, or they lose context. World literature translations also lead to the ‘dangers of a single story’ where you only get to read one side of the story (the one of the author) without having a perspective of the natives about the story that was written. To understand, how language is used in world literature, and how text translations change our understanding and meaning of the text, we need to be able to understand the culture, have historical understanding of the time the literary work was written, and factors that might affect society in which the author had written.

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

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

How do translators interact with the text to approach a successful solution in the translation process? The goal of this research is to discover the type of decision-making process student translators experience with relation Web resources access, given their need to seek, process, use, and generate a solution. These processes are analyzed and calculated through each participants’ screen recording and their post-translation interview. The student translators’ success rate does not necessary improve with an increased cognitive effort as their formulation to solve a translation problem is largely dependent on their Web search performance.

First, all Newmark’s strategies used by the two Egyptian translators will be identified and counted, then the frequency of applying each translation strategy of Newmark’s strategies by each translator will be found out. However, the two translators’ tendency for applying domestication or foreignization strategies will be further investigated and determined as well to detect how each translator deals with cultural aspects and how they convey meaning from one culture to another one and this will answer the second and the third questions of this

A Translator achieves his goal of conveying meaning from source language to target language using equivalence . Translators consider translation process more deeper than exchanging lexical and grammatical terms , when the translator goes far away from nearest linguistic equivalence ,the problems of determining level of equivalence began to rise . As pragmatics studies why sentences are used and the context of utterance and surrounding environment of each sentence in the situation .

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.

just as a language has given birth to all who speak it, so all human expression, all alien tongues that ever have been or will be spoken, must be contained in it, at least in the germ . . .There is no trait in any one language which is not at least latent in every other, though it may appear only in dialects, in the vocabularies of trades and callings, or in the chatter of the nursery. The possibility and the function of translating, its can-be, may-be and should-be, are based on this essential oneness of all languages, and on the command springing from that oneness that there shall be communication among all men.

Its data and model is always to help a number of sciences to develop more broadly (such as social science, history, and culture). Translation can be categorized as an activity to develop the right concept toward the culture and cross space and time. Translation is also regarded as a directed activity in which loyalty is ethical, economic, and profession (Hatim and Munday, 2004; Pym, 2010).

Translation is often portrayed as being an easy task, a simple transfer of words and sentences from a language to another. Because some people are bilingual or polyglots it doesn’t mean they can be translators. Translation is a very hard and difficult task to accomplish. In this essay, the focus will be on the maxim “Taduttore Traditore” (from the Italian”to translate is to betray”), trying to understand and analyse its meanings and implications. And then, try to consider whether it is or not an accurate statement regarding translation work.

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”