translation mini-game

1.Communicative translation is an attempt to...

• A)Study of the writings.

• B)Render the exact contextual meaning of the original.

• C)Communicate something.

• D)Produce the same effect on the reader of the translation as the original.

2. Name the first translation process as described by Hatim and Mason:

• a). The pragmatic dimension

• b). The semiotic dimension

• Intertextuality

• d). The communicative dimension

Semantic, faithful, source-learning, and literal, are characteristics of the semantic translation?

• True

• False

3.Who’s the author that pointed out that “semiotics transcends the study of language.”

• a). Hatim and Mason 

• b). De Saussure 

• c). Gumperz

• d). Pierce

5.Which theory was concerned with the conflict between free and literal translations and the inherent impossibility but necessity of translating? 

• a) Hermenic theories 

• b) Linguistic theories 

• c) The Prelinguistic theories