Translation Task
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A Translation Task is a linguistic processing task that converts a semantic item into a translated linguistic item.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Forward-Translation Task to being a Back-Translation Task.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Meaning (Linguistic), Interpreting, Writing, Idiom, Style Guide, Calque, Loanword.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation Retrieved:2014-10-24.
- Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. [1] Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE. [2] Translators always risk inappropriate spill-over of source-language idiom and usage into the target-language translation. On the other hand, spill-overs have imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched the target languages. Indeed, translators have helped substantially to shape the languages into which they have translated. [3] Due to the demands of business documentation consequent to the Industrial Revolution that began in the mid-18th century, some translation specialties have become formalized, with dedicated schools and professional associations. [4] Because of the laboriousness of translation, since the 1940s engineers have sought to automate translation (machine translation) or to mechanically aid the human translator (computer-assisted translation). [5] The rise of the Internet has fostered a world-wide market for translation services and has facilitated language localization. [6] Translation studies deal with the systematic study of the theory, the description and the application of translation. [7]
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to the English Language, Namit Bhatia, ed., 1992, pp. 1,051–54.
- ↑ J.M. Cohen, "Translation", Encyclopedia Americana, 1986, vol. 27, p. 12.
- ↑ Christopher Kasparek, "The Translator's Endless Toil", The Polish Review, vol. XXVIII, no. 2, 1983, pp. 84-87.
- ↑ Andrew Wilson, Translators on Translating: Inside the Invisible Art, Vancouver, CCSP Press, 2009.
- ↑ W.J. Hutchins, Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and Biographies of Pioneers, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 2000.
- ↑ M. Snell-Hornby, The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints?, Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2006, p. 133.
- ↑ Susan Bassnett, Translation studies, pp. 13-37.