Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do PortoLínguas e Literaturas Modernas

INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

Power Point 17

13 December 200713 December 2007

Mary Snell-Hornby: Mary Snell-Hornby: prototypology / an integrated approachprototypology / an integrated approach

Translation Studies: An Integrated Translation Studies: An Integrated Approach.Approach. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988/1995.John Benjamins, 1988/1995.

Translation Studies:Translation Studies:An InterdisciplineAn Interdiscipline

Mary Snell-hornby, Franz Pöchhacker, Klaus Mary Snell-hornby, Franz Pöchhacker, Klaus Kaindl (Eds.) Kaindl (Eds.) Translation Studies: An Translation Studies: An Interdiscipline.Interdiscipline. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994.John Benjamins, 1994.

TS in 1950s/1960s: a subdivision of TS in 1950s/1960s: a subdivision of Comparative Lit or Applied Linguistics. Comparative Lit or Applied Linguistics.

Since mid-1980s: an independent discipline Since mid-1980s: an independent discipline or, “given the large number of subjects or, “given the large number of subjects with which it overlaps, an with which it overlaps, an interdisciplineinterdiscipline.” .”

TASK 1TASK 1

Write a paragraph about translation Write a paragraph about translation starting like this:starting like this:

If translation were an animal/???, it If translation were an animal/???, it would be . . . (because) . . .would be . . . (because) . . .

TASK 2TASK 2

Select statements about Select statements about translation /translating/translators translation /translating/translators which have particular significance for which have particular significance for you. Order them from the one that you. Order them from the one that best represents your own view to the best represents your own view to the one that least represents your own one that least represents your own view. view.

Discuss them in your group and then Discuss them in your group and then with the rest of the classwith the rest of the class

TASK 3TASK 3

What do you thinkWhat do you thinkthe future of TS will be?the future of TS will be?

What other topics related to T/TS What other topics related to T/TS would you have liked to discuss would you have liked to discuss

in this class?in this class?What did you find most/least What did you find most/least interesting/boring/useful in this interesting/boring/useful in this

class?class?