Find the implied meaning: A: 'Are you going to be much longer?'B: 'You can mix yourself another drink.'

'It's time to go / We're going to be late / What is taking you so long?'

Rendering in translation is

an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction, of a text.

Find an example of Inter-Semiotic Translation.

Translation of metrical poetry from one language to another.

Find the implied meaning: 'Better put some sunscreen on before you go.'

It is hot and sunny outside, so you might get sunburned '.

the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.

the quality of being logical and consistent.

the study of sign and sign systems in language.

Choose the types of translation according to Roman Jacobson.

intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic.

rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences and etc.

a literal, word-for-word translation, as opposed to a paraphrase

Make your contribution as informative as is required

Maxim of relevance (relation)

Make your contributions relevant to the current exchange.

The function of shift in translation is

the process of transposing source text meanings into the target language.

verbal interchange of ideas. especially in conversation.

Supplemental coherence

indicates that an element is repeated from one segment to another.

the oldest norm for translating.

Cohesion in translation

lexico-grammatical devices across sentences to be understood as a text

Empirical translation studies is

way of predicting translation phenomena in a systematic and controlled way.

Rhymed translation is

where the translator enters into a double bondage of metre and rhyme.

What is communicative translation?

It attempts to render the exact contextual meaning of the source language.

Translation shifts are

ascribed mainly to textual incompatibility in terms of rhetorical asymmetry

Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity) and avoid ambiguity

the study of how context contributes to meaning.

literal translation is

one that maintains the original content without changing structure or form.

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Lingua pragmatics is
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
field of linguistics that studies “fixed” language fixed with pragmatics.
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A good translation is a translation that provides an __________ message of the SL text in the target language.
opposite
wrong
irrevelant
equivalent
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Maxim of quality
Avoid ambiguity
Do not say what you believe to be false.
Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).
Make your contributions relevant to the current exchange.
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Find the implied meaning: A: 'Are you going to be much longer?'B: 'You can mix yourself another drink.'
'It's time to go / We're going to be late / What is taking you so long?'
'Oh he's very friendly, very media-savvy, loves animals.'
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According to Beekman and Callow (1989), there are _______ main types of translation.
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2
4
6
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Rendering in translation is
an act or instance of interpretation, rendition, or depiction, of a text.
relating to meaning in language or logic.
rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, other elements.
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Formal equivalence is also called as
Covering
Dynamic
None of the above
Gloss
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Find an example of Inter-Semiotic Translation.
Film adaptation of a novel
Translation of metrical poetry from one language to another.
Prose rendering of Verse
Caricature
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____________ a conversational implicature based on an addressee's assumption.
Standard implicature
Conversational implicature
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The way of translating the social or cultural reality of the source text to that of the culture of target language is
Adaptation
Linguistic
Calque
Untranslatability
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_______________ translation is the oldest norm for translating.
Sense-for-sense
Line by line
Text for text
Word for word
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_________________ are to be translated based on their function.
Idiom
Play
Grammar
Poem
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Find the implied meaning: 'Better put some sunscreen on before you go.'
Buy some sunscreen for me.
It is hot and sunny outside, so you might get sunburned '.
It is going to rain.
Don't take my sunscreen.
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Sociolinguistics is
verbal interchange of ideas. especially in conversation.
field of linguistics that studies “fixed” language fixed pragmatics.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
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Coherence concerns
lexico-grammatical devices across sentences to be understood as a text
the quality of being logical and consistent.
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Semiotics is
the translation within the same language.
the conversion of text from one script to another.
the study of sign and sign systems in language.
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Susan Bassnet is
poet
novelist
translation theorist
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Choose the types of translation according to Roman Jacobson.
intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic.
intralingual, literary, and intersemiotic.
intralingual, interlingual, and legal
administrative, financial, and legal
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Grammar is
the quality of being logical and consistent.
the quality of forming a unified whole.
relating to meaning in language or logic.
rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences and etc.
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__________ is meant often goes beyond what is said and this additional meaning is inferred and predictable.
Standard implicature
Conversational implicature
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Metaphrase is
a literal, word-for-word translation, as opposed to a paraphrase
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
field of linguistics that studies “fixed” language fixed with pragmatics.
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The word translation is derived from the
Greek
german
Latin
English
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__________ is the process of using artificial intelligence to automatically translate text from one language to another.
Re-encoding
Decoding
Machine translation
Interlingual translation
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Maxim of quantity:
Try to make your contribution one that is true.
Make your contributions relevant to the current exchange.
Avoid obscurity of expression
Make your contribution as informative as is required
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According to Roman Jacobson, there are how many translation types?
5
4
3
2
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Maxim of relevance (relation)
Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).
Make your contributions relevant to the current exchange.
Make your contribution as informative as is required
Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
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According to Jakobson, every poetic art is
device
technically translatable.
technically imaginative
technically untranslatable
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The function of shift in translation is
cultural communication through which ideas are circulated and translated.
the process of transposing source text meanings into the target language.
form of translation that involves at least two different semiotic codes.
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Discourse is
the study of how context contributes to meaning.
verbal interchange of ideas. especially in conversation.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
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Horizontal or vertical translation is
Imitation
Paraphrase
Medieval translation
Metaphrase
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Supplemental coherence
indicates that an element is repeated from one segment to another.
justifies this continuity.
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Sense-for-sense
the oldest norm for translating.
cultural communication through which ideas are circulated and translated.
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_________ is translating an author word-by-word and line-by-line from one language to another.
Metaphrase
Mistranslation
Vertical
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Cohesion in translation
the quality of being logical and consistent.
lexico-grammatical devices across sentences to be understood as a text
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Empirical translation studies is
indicates that an element is repeated from one segment to another.
form of translation that involves at least two different semiotic codes.
way of predicting translation phenomena in a systematic and controlled way.
never leads to the explication of thematic continuity.
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According to Edward Sapir, language is
a text
communicating tool.
a guide to social reality.
the way of translating social or cultural reality
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Rhymed translation is
an example of Inter-Semiotic Translation.
to be translated based on their function.
translation of metrical poetry from one language to another.
where the translator enters into a double bondage of metre and rhyme.
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What is communicative translation?
interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs of the same language
any form of translation that involves at least two different semiotic codes
It attempts to render the exact contextual meaning of the source language.
It is one of the classic approaches to machine translation.
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Translation shifts are
informative
prose rendering of Verse
the way of translating social or cultural reality
ascribed mainly to textual incompatibility in terms of rhetorical asymmetry
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Rewording is also called as _______________.
intralingual translation.
calque.
adaptation.
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In which the translation of an expression is rendered word-for-word?
Calque
Adaptation
Paraphrase
Cultural
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Maxim of manner
Do not say what you believe to be false.
Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity) and avoid ambiguity
Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.
Make your contribution as informative as is required.
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Pragmatics is
verbal interchange of ideas. especially conversation.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
the study of how context contributes to meaning.
the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society.
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literal translation is
an interpretation of verbal signs by means of some other language.
used as a weapon in both dogmatic and political conflicts
represents some changes occurring in a translation process.
one that maintains the original content without changing structure or form.
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Explanatory coherence
justifies this continuity.
never leads to the explication of thematic continuity.

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