Text Analysis Activity 245 TRAJ – Introduction to Translation

Go over the text and try to find answers for the following questions:

1. What is the text about? (topic/content)

2. Is it a multimodal text? (Does it include images, videos, etc.)
3. What field does it belong to?
4. What is the purpose of the text? (why was it written)
5. Who is the intended audience of the text? (general/specialists/people who need to know
about...)
6. Who is the author of the text?
7. Is the text objective or subjective? (is the author’s opinion or viewpoint evident)
8. How is the text organized? (from general to specific or vice versa/detailed/etc.)
9. Describe the language the text is written in. (pronouns/figurative
language/tenses/technical or specialized terms/sentence structure/formality/etc.)
10. What type of text is it? (Reiss’s typology)
11. What language function does the text perform?
12. What is the language dimension of the text?
13. What is the focus of the text?
14. What function should the translation of this text perform?
15. What translation method should you use to translate this text?
16. Finally, translate the text (or some of it)