AMBEDKER OPEN UN IVERSITY

EXAMINATION -2014
COURSE IV TRANSLATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE
SUB: ENGLISH
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
MINIMUM MARKS: 35
Section a
Answer any four of the following. All questions carry equal marks. Your answer should
Be in about 250 -300 words.
4x15=60
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What is machine translation? Can a machine replace a human translator? Justify.

Attempt an essay on the translation during the Victorian period.
How do idioms complicate the translators task?
Discuss the important aspects that are relevant to translating television scripts.
How do we understand and respond to translation of Brown to day? Explain
What is a pragmatic text? What features characterize a pragmatic text? Explain
with examples.
7. What techniques does an advertiser use to appeal to the target audience? How can
it a pose a challenge to translator?
8. What is the liberty that translation for the print media offers and what are the
restrictions it impose on the translator?
Section B
Answer any five following .All questions carry equal marks. Your answer should be in
about 150 200 words.
5x8=40
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text?

Describe the silent features of translating Radio scripts?

Explain the significance of Mass Media in the present societies.
What are the limitations of Tran creation?
Write a note on footnotes and glossary in translation.
Briefly describe the important aspects of poetry translation.
What is free translation?
What are the linguistic problems?
How do you distinguish between the terms, translation and interpretation?
What are the various problems a translator encounters while translating a literary

18. What are the different objectives for translating a text?

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