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Translation norms

Translation norms. Polysystems approach and DTS. Target orientation – the study of translated texts and their functions in the TS From single texts to systems The study of translated texts within the target norms

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Translation norms

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  1. Translation norms

  2. Polysystems approach and DTS • Target orientation – the study of translated texts and their functions in the TS • From single texts to systems • The study of translated texts within the target norms G. Toury,(1995) Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond, Amsterdam, John Benjamins T. Hermans, On Modelling Translation: Models Norms and the Field of Translation, Livius 4 (1993)

  3. DTS • Translation is a fact of the target culture (G. Toury) • Translation replaces the ST for the TC (T. Hermans)

  4. Norms • What are norms? • What are conventions? • What is the role of norms?

  5. Norms – G. Toury • The initial norms – acceptability vs. adequacy • Preliminary norms – translation policy, social attitudes, • Operational norms – strategies (selection of vocabulary)

  6. Norms - Chesterman • Expectancy norms <> preliminary • Professional norms • accountability (ethics)/communication/relation (ST<>TG) • Constraints: patronage, poetics, the universe of discourse, languages, ideology. (See Lefevere)

  7. Evidence of norms • Translated texts • Translators’ statements, prefaces, anthologies • Professional documents( reviews, codes of practices, contracts)

  8. Questions • Are norms static or changing? • If changing, why do they change? • Do translators encourage change, or promote change?

  9. Lost in Translation 1

  10. Lost in Translation 2

  11. French

  12. German 1 1995

  13. German 2 1994

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