UDC

81’25

Authors

Alexeeva Irina Sergeevna
St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation,
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Abstract

In the author’s translation typology texts are divided into four groups with reference to five relevant criteria: communicative task, type of information, the source, the recipient, degree of translability. This typology is to be used in choosing the translation strategy understood broadly as a set of the text’s dominant features. This set of dominant features allows to predict frequent mistakes in the translated text. The mistakes are analyzed in two text types: an instruction and a publicistic article. The appearance of theories of text in recent years, in particular the linguistics of the text and textual typology, had a whole range of fruitful consequences for the development of translation studies: it led to communicative linguistics moving to a new stage of development, which in its turn made it possible to create a communicative model of translation on the level of the text; it stimulated attempts to create textual typologies focused on translation; it made it possible to develop a mechanism of a special applied area of linguistic analysis of the text focused on translation; it laid the foundation for the concept of “translation strategy”, and the development of translation strategies in translating various texts; it served as the basis for developing a systemic didactic model, giving a theoretical foundation to translator training; it prepared the theoretical bases for developing objective criteria for translation quality evaluation.

Keywords

text typology, translation strategy, dominant features

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