Deck 3: Equivalence and Equivalent Effect

Question 1

What are the meanings of Saussure's terms langue and parole?

A) Parole is the system of language and langue is the individual utterances
B) Langue is the system of language and parole is the individual utterances
C) Langue is written language and parole is spoken language

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is Jakobson's stance towards equivalence of meaning between languages?

A) The problem of cross-cultural difference often makes translation impossible
B) Linguistic relativity makes translation impossible
C) All things are translatable except perhaps poetry

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What are the three phases of Nida's system of translation?

A) Analysis, translation and back transformation
B) Analysis, transfer and restructuring
C) Analysis, transfer and exegesis

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What are the types of meaning that Nida analyses?

A) Linguistic, referential and connotative meaning
B) Structural, semantic and pragmatic meaning
C) Dictionary and emotive meaning

Question 5

What are the two 'basic orientations' of translation described by Nida?

A) Formal equivalence (later called 'formal correspondence') and dynamic equivalence (later called 'functional equivalence')
B) Formal equivalence and equivalent effect
C) Formal correspondence and dynamic translation

Question 6

Which of Newmark's types of translation corresponds to Nida's 'dynamic equivalence'?

A) Semantic translation
B) Communicative translation
C) Literal translation

Question 7

Which of Koller's types of equivalence corresponds to Nida's 'dynamic equivalence'?

A) Connotative equivalence
B) Text-normative equivalence
C) Pragmatic equivalence

Question 8

What is a tertium comparationis?

A) Formal equivalence
B) A comparison against which departure from meaning in an ST and TT may be gauged
C) A translation that is used to create a dynamic equivalent