What is translation?

What is translation?

1. Is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

2. PROCESS OF TRANSLATION

   • process to interpret the source text using technicall skills to a target text.
     • SKILLS IN TRANSLATION
       • -Reasonable knowledge of a foreing language. and good dictionaries. -intuitive process. -distinguish factural knowledge and procedual knowledge.

3. CATEGORIES OF TRANSLATION

   • INTRALINGUAL: translation, or ‘rewording’: ‘an interpretation of verbalsigns by means of other signs of the same language’ INTERLINGUAL: translation, or ‘translation proper’: ‘an interpretation of verbal signs by means of some other language’ INTERSEMIOTIC:translation, or ‘transmutation’: ‘an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of non-verbal sign systems

4. Distinguishing Factual Knowledge and Procedural Knowledge

   • FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE:is the knowledge of special fields Special terminology Resources available Foreign languages PROCEDUAL KNOWLEDGE: Options for translation. Basically, a translator has two options for translating: Direct or literal translation and Oblique translation.DIRECT KNOWLEDGE: Structural parallelism -> grammatical categories Meta-linguistic parallelism -> parallel concepts.