Context in Translating

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Context in

translating:

register analysis

Students:

Ambrus Melinda

Széplaki Zita


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Introduction:

Bronisła !asper

Malinoski

"##$ % "&$'

He was a Polish-born

social anthropologist

Malinowski’s primary

scientific interest wasin the study of culture

as a universal

phenomenon.

(o)n *upert +irt) "#&, % "&-,

He was an English linguist

and a leading figure in

British linguistics during

the !"#s.

$irth is noted for drawing

attention to the conte%t-

dependent nature of

meaning with his notion of

&conte%t of situation&.


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Bronisła !asper

Malinoski

(o)n *upert +irt)


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Malinoski: Context o. situation and culture

Malinowski worked with people who belonged to a remote culture

'Melanesian people in the (robriand )slands of the *estern Pacific+

/o to interpret .or an 0nglis)1speaking reader2

"3 +ree translation , intelligible no cultural insight

'3 4iteral translation , superficialy preserve the original not intelligible

53 6ranslation it) commentary 7 situationalise the te%t by relating to itsenviorment Malinowski referred to this as context o. situation

(he importance of cultural context in message interpretation is

important.


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+irt): Meaning and language 8ariation

/rea of interest0 - cultural background of language 1efinition0 the meaning of te%t in a situation is broken

down to a series of level such as the p)onological the

grammatical and the situational level.

+irt)9s description o. t)e context o. situation

articipants in t)e situation: persons and personalities- the status and roles of the participants

Action o. t)e participant: what they are doing including verbal andnon-verbal action

;t)er rele8ant .eatures o. t)esituation:

the surrounding ob2ects and events

0..ects o. t)e 8erbal action: what changes or results were brought about by what has been said by the participants


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Situational description:3inguists applied linguists and translation

theorists have different interpretations of

what has to be described.

1ue to the influence of $irth and

Malinowski description of communicative

events is now widely recogni4ed as a

proper goal of linguistic analysis.


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6)e notion o. register:

5atford describes a framework of categories for the classification of6sub-languages’ and varieties within a total language.


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=ser1related 8ariation:use % user distinctions

4anguage 8ariation

=ser: =se: dialects etc3 registers etc.

. geographical . field of discourse

9. temporal 9. mode of discourse

:. social :. tenor of discourse;. 'non-+ standard

". idiolectal


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"3 >eograp)ical dialects:

(he most widespread type of dialectal

differentiation is regional or geographic. /s a rule

the speech of one locality differs at least slightly

from that of any other place. 1ifferences betweenneighboring local dialects are usually small but in

traveling farther in the same direction differences

accumulate.

/n awarness of geographical variations and of theideological and political implications is essential

for translators and interpreters.


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'3 6emporal dialect:(emporal dialects reflect language change

through time.

Each generation has its own linguistic fashion.

(ranslators of te%ts of earlier times encounter

considerable problmes to do with the use of

archaic language in their target te%ts.


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53 Social dialect:

)n many localities dialectal differences are connected

with social classes educational levels or both. More-

highly educated speakers and often those belonging to a

higher social class tend to use more features belonging to

the standard language whereas the original dialect of the

region is better preserved in the speech of the lower and

less-educated classes.

Educational differences between speakers strongly affectthe e%tent of their vocabulary. )n addition practically

every profession has its own e%pressions which include

the technical terminology and sometimes also the casual

words or idioms peculiar to the group.


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$3 Standard dialect:


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?3 Idiolect:

)n linguistics an idiolect is an individual&s distinctive and uni>ueuse of language including speech.

/ere e can mention:

- $avorite e%pressions?

- 1ifferent pronnuciation of particular words?- (endency to over-use specific syntatic structure?

6)e @uestion .or t)e translator is:

Is it necessary or possible to translate t)em2

- )diolects carry socio-cultural significance

- @ne’s idiolectal use of language is A@( unrelated to one’s choice of

which standard geographical social or temporal dialect to use.


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