knowledge and skill for translation

1. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
INVOLVED IN
TRANSLATION
WINA VIQA SARI
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2. WHAT IS TRANSLATION
“Translation is a term that refers to transferring ideas and thought
from source language into target language.”
(Brislin: 1976)

3. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
INVOLVED IN TRANSLATION
Translator has access to five distinct kinds of knowledge:
 Target language (TL) knowledge
 Text-type knowledge
 Source language (SL) knowledge
 Subject area (real world) knowledge
 Contrastive knowledge
Bell (1991:36)

4. KNOWLEDGE OF TL & SL
The competence may cover:
 Semantic knowledge
 Syntactic knowledge
 Pragmatic knowledge

5. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
INVOLVED IN TRANSLATION
This knowledge can be sum up into communicative competence which
covers:
 Grammatical competence
 Sociolinguistic competence
 Discourse competence
 Strategic competence
Swain (1985)

6. FIVE PARAMETERS OF
TRANSLATION COMPETENCE
 Language competence
 Textual competence
 Subject competence
 Cultural competence
 Transfer competence
Neubert (2000:6)

7. THANK YOU