The Beginning Translator's Workbook Or the ABC of French to English Translation

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ISBN: 9780761808374 | 076180837X
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Copyright: 8/28/1997

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This workbook combines methodology and practice for use in a course for beginning translators with a proficiency in French ranging from intermediate to advanced level.

Preface	p. ix
The Would be Translator's Basic Terminology	p. xi
Preliminary Remarks: Linguistics and Metalinguistics	p. xv
Translation Units
What are T.U.s and what is their use?	p. 1
Lexical T.U.s	p. 2
Grammatical T.U.s	p. 4
Extended T.U.s	p. 5
Delineation of T.U.s	p. 6
Exercises	p. 8
Words in Context
Polysemy: Words and their semantic range	p. 15
Literal vs. figurative meaning	p. 16
Language levels
Gender problems	p. 17
Dictionaries and thesauri	p. 18
Exercises	p. 19
Deceptive Cognates
Faux amis	p. 25
Cognates and deceptive cognates
Partial faux amis	p. 26
Unrelated similar looking words
List of common deceptive cognates	p. 28
Exercises	p. 33
Translation Devices
What strategies do translators have at their disposal?	p. 37
Sample chart	p. 38
Borrowings
What is a borrowing and what is its purpose?	p. 41
French and English: a history of mutual borrowing	p. 42
Lexical fields of borrowing	p. 44
Creative borrowing	p. 45
Unnecessary borrowing	p. 47
Use of borrowings
Exercises	p. 49
Calques
What is a calque?	p. 53
Semantic and structural calques
Calques and neologisms	p. 54
Calques and acronyms	p. 55
Calque vs. borrowing
Exercises	p. 56
Literal Translation and Structural Obstacles to Literal translation
What is a literal translation?	p. 59
Structural obstacles to literal translation	p. 61
Differences in word order
Ellipses	p. 63
Gallicisms and Anglicisms	p. 65
Special problems with verb tenses	p. 66
Problems with French pronominal verbs	p. 68
Exercises	p. 71
Transposition
What is transposition?	p. 77
Some examples of necessary transpositions	p. 78
Examples of optional transpositions	p. 79
Noun-verb transpositions
Transpositions with postpositional adverbs	p. 80
Cross transposition	p. 81
Exercises	p. 82
Modulation
What is modulation?	p. 89
Word modulations	p. 90
Preposition modulations	p. 95
Message modulations	p. 96
Necessary and optional modulations	p. 97
Modulation and transposition	p. 98
Exercises	p. 99
Equivalence
What is equivalence?	p. 105
Exclamations and reflex formulas	p. 106
Prop words
Greetings and letter closings	p. 107
Cliches and idioms
Slang and slang expressions	p. 109
Proverbs and axioms
Official signs and warnings
References to a common socio-cultural heritage	p. 110
Exercises	p. 111
Adaptation
What is adaptation?	p. 119
Linguistic deficiency and compensation	p. 120
Adaptation in traditions, usages and institutions
Exercises	p. 128
Applying Translators' Devices to Literary Texts
Transposition	p. 131
Modulation	p. 135
Equivalence	p. 138
Adaptation	p. 142
General Exercises	p. 146
Translating Titles
General advice	p. 151
Translation devices applied to the translation of titles	p. 152
Exercises	p. 157
Guidelines for the Translation of Literary Prose
Sticking to the text vs. demonstrating originality	p. 161
What are the basic guidelines to follow for a successful translation?
Working method	p. 163
Text samples, guiding notes and suggested translations	p. 166
Guidelines for the Translation of Dialogues and Plays
Problems specific to the translation of dialogues and plays	p. 187
Equivalence as the preferred translating device for dialogues	p. 188
Use of a specific vocabulary	p. 189
Text samples, guiding notes and suggested translations	p. 191
Guidelines for the Translation of Poetry
Poetry translation: a difficult but creative enterprise	p. 211
Is poetry translation the reserved domain of poets?
The different levels of poetry translation	p. 212
How to proceed with the translation of a poem	p. 213
Basic rules of French prosody	p. 215
Poem samples and suggested translations	p. 217
Guidelines for the Translation of Non-Literary Texts
Content vs. style	p. 223
Non-literary and specialty languages	p. 224
Taking liberties with sentence structure	p. 225
Improving on the original	p. 226
Conventions in newspapers and magazines	p. 227
Cultural references in newspapers and magazines	p. 229
Sample of newspaper and magazine articles, guiding notes and suggested translations	p. 232
Guidelines for the Translation of Ads
Ads and cultural references	p. 251
Advice for the translation of ads	p. 253
A sampler of ad translations	p. 255
The Translator's Tools
Dictionaries, specialized dictionaries, books on translation studies	p. 261
Index	p. 273
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