CHAPTER 5_THEORY TRANSLATION_MONDAY

1/ In scenes-and frame semantics highlights that dictionary look-up is a big matter of linguistic copy and paste.

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2/ Misunderstanding of the process of reading comprehension can affect the notion of translation.

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3/ An accurate combination of both top-down and bottom-up processing is one of the required conditions to read comprehensively and successfully.

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4/ The translator needs to have some knowledge of the glossary to determine which of the frames in the dictionary is associated with the approciate scene for the text.

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5/ Translator should be perfectly bilingual, balanced proficiency in translators is more of a prescriptivist myth than a descriptive fact.

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6/ In a bottom-down model of comprehension, reading proceeds from smaller units into larger ones.

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7/ We cannot discuss word meaning, especially in the context of translation, without referring to dictionaries.

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8/ Successfully comprehension requires a wise choice of either top-down or bottom-up processing.

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9/ Reader should not bring his/her world knowledge to the text because it may cause distortion of the content.

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10/ When the directionality of translation is into the first or dominant language, the translator should read in his/her second (or less dominant) language.

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