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studied
- the grammatical, lexical, stylistic and phraseological difficulties
of translation of political literature were discussed
The originality of this work is in its creative approach to the study
of methods of translation, besides, it contains a detailed review of ways
and methods of translation.
The given Qualification paper contains introduction, two chapters, and
samples of translations of political set expressions, conclusion and
bibliography list.
Summary
Most translators prefer to think of their work as a profession and
would like to see others to treat them like professionals rather than as
skilled or semi-skilled workers. But to achieve this, translators need to
develop an ability to stand back and reflect on what they do and how they
do it. Like doctors and engineers, they have to prove to themselves as well
as others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just
translate well because they have ‘flair’ for translation, but rather
because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to
understand various aspects of their work.
Unlike medicine and engineering, translation is a very young
discipline in academic terms. It is only just starting to feature as a
subject of study in its own right, not yet in all but in an increasing
number of universities and colleges around the world. Like any young
discipline, it needs to draw on the findings and theories of other related
disciplines in order to develop and formalize its own methods; but which
disciplines it can naturally and fruitfully be related to is still a matter
of some controversy. Almost every aspect of life in general and of the
interaction between speech communities in particular can be considered
relevant to translation, a discipline which has to concern itself with how
meaning is generated within and between various groups of people in various
cultural settings. This is clearly too big an area to investigate in one
go. So, let us just start by saying that, if translation is ever to become
a profession in the full sense of the word, translators will need something
other than the current mixture of intuition and practice to enable them to
reflect on what they do and how they do it. They will need, above all, to
acquire a sound knowledge of the raw material with which they work: to
understand what language is and how it comes to function for its users.
In this research work we have completed the following tasks:
- we have reviewed all the sources of Political literature
- we revealed the methods and ways of translation of Political
literature
- and we have also investigated grammatical, lexical, phraseological
and stylistic difficulties of translation of Political literature.
In this Qualification paper we have reviewed almost all the
grammatical, lexical, stylistic difficulties of translation of Political
Literature.
While reviewing the grammatical changes we considered the following
transformations: substitution, omission, transposition and supplementation.
Substitution is one of the grammatical relations among the parts of the
sentences. In substitution, an item (or items) is replaced by another item
(or items), ex:
I like Politics. And I do. or
Will the United Stated start the war against Iraq? – No one knows.
The words like do, one, the same are usually used in substitution.
Omission, as you know is when an item is replaced by nothing. This is a
case of leaving something unsaid which is nevertheless understood. The
example is:
In the World War II the Soviet Union lost over 70 millions of life. And
the United States less than 10.
A hearer will easily infer what happened to the United States during
the war.
Transposition is required when the English sentence contains a large
group of nouns with indefinite article and then it is natural that they,
being the center of informative message are placed at the end of the
sentence. Besides, a short, compared with the noun predicate can not bear
the emphatic sense of a large group of nouns.
A big wave of actions by all sections of workers – skilled and
unskilled, men and women, manual and non-manual – for higher wages and
equal pay, for shorter hours and a greater say in shaping the environment
at work is rising.
Сейчас нарастает огромная волна забастовок трудящихся всех категорий –
квалифицированных и не квалифицированных, мужчин и женщин, работников
физического и умственного труда – за повышение зарплаты, за равную оплату
женского труда, за сокращение рабочего дня, за улучшение условий труда.
Supplementation happens to be very frequent when translating texts
on International politics because we do not always have corresponding words
for some English or American notions like:
During the World War II one of the basic changes in the US military
bases was the construction of emergency hangars in case of sudden attack.
Одним из немаловажных перемен в военных базах США во время Второй
Мировой Войны была разработка конструкции ангаров для срочного вылета в
случае внезапной атаки.
There is no corresponding word in Russian military system for
emergency hangar therefore we had to make use of supplementation.
Thus, we have come to conclusion that the above mentioned changes
are necessary while processing a translation of Political literature from
English into Russian.
While discussing the lexical problems of translation we considered
lexical-semantic features of both languages and investigated such cases as
difference in word volume, word combinability, generally accepted tradition
of word usage, we have also considered contextual meaning of words in the
process of translation. In addition we investigated the emotional coloring
that plays an important role while processing a translation of Political
Literature. We have studied the translation of international words and
unexpected usage of word combinability that makes the translation task
harder.
A very interesting contextual meaning of exploitation was in the
following example:
Britain’s worldwide exploitation was shaken to the roots by Colonial
Liberation Movements.
The contextual meaning of the word originated metonymically – any
colonial system lives on exploitation, which is the basis of colonial
power. The corresponding Russian эксплуатация can not be used in this
contextual meaning, the contextual surroundings of exploitation (worldwide,
shaken to the roots) also prevents it. The only possible variant of
translation is by means of metonymic transposition – substitution:
Колониальное могущество Англии было подорвано (потрясено до основания)
национально-освободительным движением во всех колониях.
The use of words of abstract meaning strongly differs in various
languages. Therefore arises the necessity of concrete definition in
translating.
The Saigon regime used every form of pressure and violence to compel a
reluctant electorate to go to the polls.
Сайгонский режим прибегал ко всем видам давления и насилия, чтобы
заставить упрямых избирателей принять участие в выборах.
In the study of stylistic transformation during translation we found,
that the repetition is widely used with stylistic purposes in newspaper
publicity. In these cases the translator is compelled to apply stylistic
changes, make substitution or omission.
A policy of see no stagnation, hear no stagnation, speak no
stagnation has had too long a run for our money.
Слишком долго мы расплачиваемся за политику полного игнорирования и
замалчивания застоя в нашей экономике.
The triple repetition of no stagnation has been omitted in
translation, though is partially compensated by the use of synonymic pair
at a word (stagnation), but neutralization is evident in translation. The
neutralization happened when translating the phraseological unit to have
(too long) a run for our money.
Still, studying the difficulties of translation of Political literature
we have come to conclusion that the most difficulty to a translator
represent set expressions and phraseological units that are widely used in
American and English politics. In most cases we do not have corresponding
notions in Russian or have some words that do not sufficiently cover the
whole meaning of the word in question: for example:
The Cold War last for more than forty years.
Холодная война длилась более сорока лет.
In this case we used word for word (verbatim) translation for we do not
have any words that would convey the sense the Americans put in this
expression.
Therefore a translator, majoring in the translation of Politics should
have a good command not only of English itself, but should know the
principles of International politics and other Political sciences.
To wind up this discourse, we would like to remind you, that while our
country is rapidly integrating into the International community, the need
of highly experienced translators of Political literature will be evident
to make the International Events easily accessible to general public.
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