Deck 9: The Role of the Translator: Visibility, Ethics and Sociology

Question 1

Which of the following is a phenomenon of the translator's invisibility, according to Venuti (2008)?

A) Translators translate fluently creating the illusion of transparency
B) Copyright goes to the translator in all types of translation but is only concealed in literary translation
C) A translated text is read as a piece of 'original writing', not as a translation

Answer 1

A,C

Question 2

Which nineteenth century theorist does Venuti draw on for his concepts of domestication and foreignization?

A) Matthew Arnold
B) Friedrich Schleiermacher
C) Iginio Tarchetti

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What are the two levels of domestication and foreignization?

A) Ethical and discursive
B) Textual and discursive
C) Ethical and textual

Answer 3

A

Question 4

For Antoine Berman, what is the main problem of translating a novel?

A) To understand the dialect in which it was written
B) To respect the ideas of the source text
C) To avoid standardizing the varieties of language in the source text

Question 5

Which of the following are 'deforming tendencies' of Berman's 'negative analytic'?

A) Clarification
B) The destruction of the networks of meaning of the source text
C) Literal translation

Question 6

What is the term borrowed from Bourdieu to describe the different agents in the production of cultural artefacts?

A) Decision-makers
B) Controllers
C) Gate-keepers

Question 7

What is the general term for material (preface, cover, review, critique…) that accompanies or comments on a text?

A) Peritext
B) Paratext
C) Epitext

Question 8

What is the term Simeoni uses, following Bourdieu, to refer to the disposition and make-up of the translator?

A) Translator's capital
B) Translatorial habitus
C) Translatorial illusio