Leitura e Compreensão de Textos Acadêmicos A2-B1

10th April 2024

CLASS 3
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Activity 1: reading a text about jobs. (Unlock book p.108)

text A text B text C

1 What is the job? (Head) nurse (private) pilot Maths teacher

2 Which country is the China India Japan

job in?

3 Where is the work? Renji Hospital Asia Kitahiroshima

Primary School

4 What is the pay? CNY 16,800 / month INR 200,000 per JPY 320,000 per month
journey

5 What are the hours? full time (including Part time Full time
weekends)
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1 The temperature in your freezer is cold. It is about –18 ̊C. The city of Yakutsk in Russia is colder
than your freezer. In winter, the average temperature is
–42 ̊C!

2 In 2018, I visited Yakutsk. Why? Because I wanted to see the coldest city in the world. I wanted
to meet the people of Yakutsk.

3 ‘Life is difficult in winter,’ says Svetlana, ‘but we’re not sad.’ Svetlana is the manager of a café in
Yakutsk. She has two children. Her son Pavel is 11. Her daughter Daria is 5.

4 ‘The average temperature in winter is –42 ̊C. Some winters are colder. At –55 ̊C, the schools
are closed. Daria and Pavel are happy,’ Svetlana says.

5 People in Yakutsk like sports. In spring and autumn, the average temperature is –21 ̊C. They go
skiing and ice skating. In summer, it is warm. The average temperature is +20 ̊C. People take
food and drinks to eat outside.
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Translation Types

Three types of translation (JACOBSON, Roman. 1971):

Intersemiotic translation: everyday life; between semiotic systems = system of

communication using signs as a means of expression. E.g.: the green light x red light

Intralingual translation:daily life; a translation within the same language. Simplification.

(summary/reformulation)

Interlingual translation: two different languages.

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Translation Forms

1. Literary translation: Literary translation: literary works: poems, stories or novels, skits or plays.
Challenge: translate the meaning, while simultaneously taking into account the author’s style.

2. Professional translation: medical translations or a legal translations

3. Technical translation: technical drawings, patents, manuals, and data sheets.

4. Administrative translation: business translation. Contracts, invoices, and letters.

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Translation Techniques

Borrowing
Calque
Literal Translation
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Translation Techniques

Borrowing > hamburguer

Calque > breakfast
Literal Translation > Who are you?
Transposition > Is it the correct way?
Modulation > The last stage of the experiment.
Reformulation or Equivalence > Let the cat out of the bag (entregar o jogo/dar com a língua nos
dentes)
Adaptation > similar to previous
Compensation > you x you
Expansion/Amplification > sinus = sinus nasais
Reduction > computer science= informática
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Reading strategies - Activity 1

Translation techniques of manual text

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362822385_Translation_techniques_of_manual_te xt

- What is the text about?

- What genre does the text belong to (literary, scientific, philosophic, …)?
- What do you think “manual text” is?
- What kinds of gadgets can be translated?
- Think of words associated with.
- What is the gadget?
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Read and think of: (Activity 2)

1- What do translators deal with?

2- What can be one of the most interesting subjects in translation?

3- What principles should a translation follow?

4- What are the goals/objectives/purposes of this study?

5- What’s the original language and what language the object of study is being translated to?

6- How many techniques are used for the study analysis?

7- How many techniques were employed in the translation?

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Read and think of: (Activity 2)

1- What do translators deal with?

Translators often deal with various types of texts, such as academic texts, journalistic texts, subtitle texts, legal texts,
speech texts, literary texts, and manual texts.

2- What can be one of the most interesting subjects in translation?

Manual text could be one of many interesting subjects of research in translation field.

3- What principles should a translation follow?

Translating manual text should follow the principles, such as communicative, short, concise, easy to read, reader-
oriented, and natural in target language.
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Read and think of:

4- What are the goals/objectives/purposes of this study?

This study examines the translation technique of 12 excerpt of Cosmos oven manual text

5- What’s the original language and what language the object of study is being translated to?
translated from English into Indonesia (Indonesian)

6- How many techniques are used for the study analysis?

This study uses 18 translation techniques to analyze the data

7- How many techniques were employed in the translation?

The results of the study showed that there are five translation techniques
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Asynchronous activity 3

Grade: 10 points
Deadline:16/04/2024
To be answered on the form.

Read the text about translating manual texts (seen in class and provided in the next slide).
Follow the instructions in the form: https://forms.gle/ZKPiABR2sdxEkXJF6
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Text for asynchronous Activity 3

Background: Translators often deal with various types of texts, such as academic texts, journalistic
texts, subtitle texts, legal texts, speech texts, literary texts, and manual texts. Manual text could be
one of many interesting subjects of research in translation field. Translating manual text should
follow the principles, such as communicative, short, concise, easy to read, reader-oriented, and
natural in target language. Purpose: This study examines the translation technique of 12 excerpt of
Cosmos oven manual text in the form of phrases, clauses, and sentences translated from English
into Indonesia. Design and Method: This study uses 18 translation techniques to analyze the data
that was taken from Cosmos oven manual text. Results: The results of the study showed that there
are five translation techniques found in Cosmos oven manual texts: amplification (30%),
modulation (27%), reduction (27%), borrowing (8%), and literal translation (8%). Cosmos oven
manual text mostly used amplification technique. There are some additional words or information,
paraphrasing, making the text explicit to make the translation clear and help target readers
understand the text