英语翻译 教学教材1.ppt

College English Translation英语翻译 2014-2015学年第1学期;Introduction ;Requirement ;Unit 1 Preface; A number of scholars have also suggested further distinctions between different types of translation, e.g., “covert vs. overt translation”(House:1977), “communicative and semantic translation” (Newmark:1988), Domesticating and Foreignizing Translation”(Venuti:1995). “Translation is frequently characterized metaphorically, and has --amongst many other things – been compared to playing a game or a map.” Each of these analogies, however, is only intended to capture one particular facet of translation.” ;Catford defines translation as “the replacement of textual material in one language (SL) by equivalent textual material in another language (TL).” Catford further explained that: “In translation, there is substitution of TL meanings for SL meanings: not transference of TL meanings into the SL. In transference there is an implantation of SL meanings into the TL text. These two processes must be clearly differentiated in any theory of translation.”  J.C. Catford, A Linguistic Theory of Translation London: Oxford University Press,1965, p.20 ;Jakobson’s (1959) definition: Intralingual translation, or ‘rewording’: ‘an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs of the same language’; Interlingual translation, or ‘translation proper’: ‘an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other language’; Intersemiotic translation, or ‘transmutation’: ‘an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of non-verbal sign systems”. ;Lawendowski defines translation as “ the transfer of ‘meaning’ from one set of language signs to another set of language signs”[1]. Nida and Taber’s definition of translation is based on preserving the effect of the original: “Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closet natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style.” [2] [1] Boguslaw Lawendowski “on Semiot