1. What is headline?

28. Translation theory: objects and objectives.
Translation theory — study of translation, which is aimed to investigate the translation process and give the theoretical explanation of it. It investigates such aspects as translation and its notions, transformations, equivalence and equivalents, translation models, transformations and pragmatics of the text.


Aspects: general (general notions typical of translation from any language), specific (regularities of translation characteristics of particular languages), special (texts of various registers and genres).


Translation invariant — what is in common b/w the two expressions after all the manipulations.


Translation unit — a group of words united in speech by their meanings, rhythm and melody (syntagm).


Objectives:

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  To provide an overview of translation studies as an academic discipline;
  

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  To present translation theory as a component of this discipline and outline some of the issues it aims to address;
  

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  To outline the various perspectives from which different scholars have attempted to develop a theory of translation;
  

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  To formulate aims and tasks of rendering;
  

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  To show ways and means of solving problems of translation;
  

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  To establish lexical, grammatical and stylistic correspondences and divergences between two languages;