НАУЧНАЯ БИБЛИОТЕКА - РЕФЕРАТЫ - The problems of oral translation

The problems of oral translation

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Central Kazakhstan University “MHTI - Lingua”

The Institute of language and translation “Lingua”

Interpretation faculty

Evening department

Shkurskaya Elena (ЗАПР-053)

PROBLEMS OF ORAL TRANSLATION

Course paper

Speciality: 050207 - Interpreting

Discipline: Translation theory

Superviser: Isabaeva N.S.

Karagandy 2008

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER I. TRANSLATION IS A MEANS OF INTERLINGUAL COMMUNICATION

1.1.TRANSLATION THEORY

1.2A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRANSLATION

1.3. MAIN TYPES OF TRANSLATION

CHAPTER II. CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF ORAL TRANSLATION

2.1 PROBLEMS OF ORAL TRANSLATION

2.2 NOTE-TAKING IN CONSECUTIVE TRANSLATION

2.3 LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

INTRODUCTION

When you stop and think about it, everything in life is translation. We translate our feelings into actions. When we put anything into words, we translate our thoughts. Every physical action is a translation from one state to another. Translating from one language into another is only the most obvious form of an activity which is perhaps the most common of all human activities. This maybe the reason people usually take translation for granted, as something that does not require any special effort, and at the same time, why translation is so challenging and full of possibilities.

There is nothing easy or simple about translation, even as there is nothing easy or simple about any human activity. It only looks easy because you are used to doing it. Anyone who is good at a certain activity can make it appear easy, even though, when we pause to think, we realize there is nothing easy about it.

Translation in the formal sense deals with human language, the most common yet the most complex and hallowed of human functions. Language is what makes us who we are. Language can work miracles. Language can kill, and language can heal. Transmitting meaning from one language to another brings people together, helps them share each other's culture, benefit from each other's expe