These slideshots will show the early origins in Translation

1. Translation
Discipline
Art
Science ( Human Sciences)
Science and Technique
( natural phenomenon) (development of a human task)

2.  Translation
Interpretation
Written Discourse
Oral Discourse
( Trouchement, Hermes, Herodo
Differences

3.  Translation and interpretation born of a
commercial trade need
 Akkadians ( language spoken in old
Mesopotamia) and Sumerians( first
settlers of the Persian Gulf)
Origin

4.  Cicero (106 B.C)
Verbum Pro verbo (literally,
Word for word)
LITERAL TRANSLATION FREE
TRANSLATION
Loyal to lyrics( Horacio) Loyal to spirit
Representatives in Translation

5.  St. Jerome: father of translation
 Pope Damasus asked St. Jerome to
translate the Bible into Latin
 St. Jerome introduced the term sense
(free translation)
Representatives in Translation

6.  Newmark
 Taber (1959)
 Jackobson (1959)
 Nida (1964)
 Halliday y Hassan
 Bertrand Russell
 Wuster
 David Bergen
 Chesterman
 Lorcher
 Harris and Sherwood
 Viney y Dalbernet
 Toury
 Reiss
 Delisle
 Vermeer
 Catford
 Wills
 Koller
 Rabadan
Representatives in Translation

7.  Medieval: Middle ages, time for oppression
 Reinassance: ( XVII): no fidelity to lyrics
( Amos, Ben Johnson, Chapman)
. XVIII century: proliferation of languages, interest for
dictionaries
. Concept of traductology in XVIII century, England:
reflection on theory of translation; features: fidelity,
sense, spirit, author’s style, clarity in TT
Scheleiermarcher got worried about TT (XIX century)
Goethe: Translator’s creatitvity role
half of XX century: translation as a discipline
Historical Periods of Translation

8.  Amaparo Hurtado(2001)Representative in
traductology
 Christianne Nord
 Anabel Borja
 Maria Teresa Cabré: TCT (1999)
 Ema Camacho Mejía
 Roberto Mayoral
 Ada Franzoni
 Carmen Falzoi
 Vásquez Ayora
 Humberto Ecco
Modern Theories in Translation

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