
- •Theory of translation Topic 3 Grammatical Translation Techniques
- •Translate the following items commenting on the techniques.
- •Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of expansion and compression. Prepare your own examples:
- •Translate the following items relying on the suggested techniques.
- •Translate the sentences into the tl and comment on the transformations.
- •Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of sentence breaking and sentence joining. Prepare your own examples:
- •9. Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of replacement. Prepare your own examples:
- •11. Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of antonymic translation. Prepare your own examples:
- •13. Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of transposition. Prepare your own examples:
- •15. Match the terms denoting translation techniques with their Russian equivalents.
9. Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of replacement. Prepare your own examples:
The essence of replacement (= functional substitution) is substituting one thing by another. There are several types of replacement:
substitution of word forms (сани – sledge, часы – watch),
substitution of parts of speech (to shrug a careless shoulder – небрежно пожать плечами),
substitution of sentence parts (The book made him feel sorry for the characters – Ему было жаль героев книги),
substitution of sentence types (While I was eating my eggs, these two nuns with suitcases came in - Я ел яичницу, когда вошли эти две монахини с чемоданами).
10. Translate the sentences using the types of replacement suggested.
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11. Read the information and be ready to explain the essence of antonymic translation. Prepare your own examples:
One more translation device is antonymic translation. Antonymic translation is substituting a negative sentence with an affirmative one and vice versa (She is not unworthy of your attention – Она вполне заслуживает вашего внимания).
12. Use antonymic translation as a transformation technique.
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