What Are Translation Techniques?

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are the

different ways in which a professional translator will translate a given text

. … Many of which rely on the translator having a much deeper understanding of the cultural roots from which each language grows…

What kind of techniques translators use?

  • Borrowing. Borrowing is a translation technique that involves using in the target text the same word or expression found in the original text. …
  • Calque. …
  • Literal translation. …
  • Transposition. …
  • Modulation. …
  • Equivalence. …
  • Adaptation.

What are the 4 types of translation?

  • Literary translation.
  • Professional translation.
  • Technical Translation.
  • Administrative translation.

What are the five basic elements of translation techniques?

  • 5 techniques of literary translation. The five literary translation techniques presented by Amparo Hurtado Albir, one of the leading specialists in translation. …
  • Adaptation. …
  • Linguistic Amplification. …
  • Compensation. …
  • Elision. …
  • Borrowing.

What are the three main techniques used for machine translation?

Historically three different approaches to MT have been used:

direct translation, interlingual translation and transfer based translation

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What are the three kinds of translation?

Jakobson's On Linguistic Aspects of Translation (1959, 2000) describes three kinds of translation:

intralingual (within one language, i.e. rewording or paraphrase), interlingual (between two languages), and intersemiotic (between sign systems)

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What is general translation?

What ‘general translation' means to us. To us, ‘general translations' mean:

translations for which the translator doesn't need extensive knowledge or experience of a specific specialist area

. These include, for example, news articles, travelogues, private or business letters and job applications.

What are the eight types of translation?

Newmark distinguished eight methods of translation (Newmark, 1988: 45-47): 1)

Word-for-word translation

, 2) Literal translation, 3) Faithful translation, 4) Page 7 2 Semantic translation, 5) Adaptation, 6) Free translation, 7) Idiomatic translation, and 8) Communicative translation.

What is the best method of translation?

Method Quality MT + light Post-editing Medium. Understandable without being well written. May contain translation errors.
Human translation

High. Accurate and well written, but possibility of inadvertent translator error.
HT + Revision Highest. Of publishable quality, suitable for any purpose.

What are some examples of translation?

Frequency: The definition of a translation is an interpretation from one language or situation to another. An example of a translation is “

bueno” meaning “good” in Spanish

. An example of a translation is telling a parent the meaning behind their teen's facial expression.

What are types of translation?

  • Literary Translation. …
  • Software Localization. …
  • Commercial Translation. …
  • Legal Translation. …
  • Technical Translation. …
  • Judicial Translation. …
  • Administrative Translation. …
  • Medical Translations.

What is direct and indirect translation?


Indirect translation is opposed

to direct translation, which is a translation made directly from the ultimate source text, without a mediating text.

What is equivalent translation?

Translational equivalence is the similarity between a word (or expression) in one language and its translation in another. This similarity results from overlapping ranges of reference. A translation equivalent is

a corresponding word or expression in another language

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What are the 2 main machine translation MT methods of translation?

The two most common machine translation engines are

Rule based and Statistical

. They differ in the way they process and analyze content, but they are often combined in the same system, known as Hybrid MT.

How accurate is machine translation?

The Accuracy Suffers

Machine translations are

most effective when used to get

the general idea or the gist of a passage or piece of content. However, when it comes to word-for-word accuracy from one language to another, a machine won't deliver a high percentage of accurate translation.

What are the steps in direct machine translation?

A transfer-based machine translation system involves three stages. The first stage makes analysis of the source text and converts it into abstract representations;

the second stage converts those into equivalent target language-oriented representations

; and the third generates the final target text.

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