Problem of translatability

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• Год подготовки:
  15.12.2009
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  24 стр.
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  CONTENTS:
  
  1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………...…2-3
  2. THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATABILITY ON THE LINGUISTIC LEVEL………………………………………………………………...…4-10
  3. CULTURAL ASPECT OF TRANSLATABILITY………..…………..10-14
  4. TRANSLATABILITY OF LITERARY WORKS…………….……….14-20
  5. CONCLUSIONS………………………………………….…………….21-22
  6. BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………………23-24
  
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  Translation theorists say that translation is a mode and the law that governs the translation is translatability. The term “translatability” refers to the possibility of translating from one language into another. The problem of translatability is considered to be an essential issue in a present day translation theory; this notion is at the heart of all practical problems of translation.
  Different approaches to this question are derived from opposing views on the nature of language and meaning, relationship between linguistic and extralinguistic aspects of translation and the translation norm. Debates about the translatability concern primarily the question whether fully adequate translation from one language into another is possible or to what degree it is possible.
  Translatability also concerns the relation between text and language. There are two opposing concepts: translation equivalence with respect to the source text vs. translation acceptability within the target culture. Nowadays most of translation theorists believe that as there is a unity between thought and language, an adequate translation is possible.
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  THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATABILITY ON THE LINGUISTIC LEVEL
  The objective difficulties arising from differences in source language and target language grammatical forms and structures shouldn’t be underestimated. Jakobson wrote in his works, that it’s quite difficult to remain faithful to the original when it’s necessary to translate into a language provided with a certain grammatical category from a language deprived of such a category. The total isomorphism of structures and forms arises only in rare cases. Between some languages exists considerable structure similarity but many problems arise from the existence of language specific grammatical forms. It’s obvious that the more remote languages are from one another, the harder it is to express the same concepts in both.
  For example:
  In Russian language "I have" literally can be translated into at (or by) me there is. Russian language has a word that means "to have": иметь (imet") — but it is very rarely used by Russian speakers in the same way English speakers use the word to have. In fact, in some cases, it may be misinterpreted as vulgar slang.
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  BIBLIOGRATHY
  
  1. Бархударов Л.С. Что нужно знать переводчику / Тетради переводчика. М.,1978.-112 c.
  2. Бархударов Л. С. Язык и перевод М: 1975.-190 c.
  3. Виноградов В.С. Введение в переводоведение. – М., 2001.-224 c.
  4. Катфорд Дж.К. Лингвистическая теория перевода. Об одном аспекте прикладной лингвистики. – УРСС, 2004.-208 c.
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