Conceptos Final

According to Catford, translation shifts are defined as departures from what in the process of going from the Source Language (SL) to the Target Language (TL)?

• a) Textual equivalence

• b) Linguistic competence

• c) Formal correspondence

• d) Cognitive process

Catford identifies two main types of translation shifts. What are they?

• a) Direct and Oblique

• b) Shift of Level and Shift of Category

• c) Servitude and Option

• d) Structural and Class

A shift of level occurs when something expressed by grammar in the SL is expressed by what in the TL, or vice versa?

• a) Phonology

• b) Graphology

• c) Lexis

• d) Morpheme

Which of the following is given as an example of a level shift in the sources?

• a) Translating "a medical student" (English, adjective + noun) as "un étudiant en médecine" (French, noun + prepositional phrase)

• b) Translating "I like jazz" (English) as "me gusta el jazz" (Spanish)

• c) Translating Russian aspect (grammar) by a lexical verb in English

• d) Translating "advice" (English, uncountable) as "des conseils" (French, plural)

According to the sources, most of Catford's analysis is dedicated to which type of shift?

• a) Shift of Level

• b) Shift of Category

• c) Intra-system shifts

• d) Unit shifts

Which sub-type of category shift is described as involving changes in grammatical structure, often considered the most common?

• a) Class shifts

• b) Unit shifts

• c) Intra-system shifts

• d) Structural shifts

According to the sources, a major criticism of Catford's book is that his examples are almost all idealized and decontextualized, meaning he does not look at whole texts or even above the level of the what?

• a) Word

• b) Group

• c) Clause

• d) Sentence

After moving to Canada in 1946, Jean-Paul Vinay taught at the University of Montreal. What roles did he hold there?

• a) Reader in French

• b) Director of the Bilingual Canadian Dictionary

• c) Professor and head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation

• d) Head of the English Department

Besides his work on translation, Jean-Paul Vinay directed the publication of a significant work in 1962. What was it?

• a) A comprehensive grammar textbook

• b) A bilingual Canadian Dictionary

• c) A book on phonetics and philology

• d) A collection of translation theories

Jean-Paul Vinay became well known through a television course. What was the subject of this course?

• a) Speaking English

• b) Translation Theory

• c) Canadian History

• d) Speaking French