Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

Text forms in curriculum design

Adopting the text type criterion in the classification of text types is the first important step in a translation training curriculum design. As shown above, this initial step allows the translator to decide on a global translation approach: literal or free. The following step, according to Hatim & Mason, is to identify the various text forms that are commonly encountered within a particular text type by resorting to genre criteria and typical linguistic features (Ibid: 190-191) and by adopting an ordering which reflects an increasing degree of evaluativeness.
Within the exposition text type, Hatim & Mason have established the following text forms:

1. 
   the abstract
   
2. 
   the synopsis
   
3. 
   the summary
   
4. 
   the entity-oriented news report (i.e. listing the aims of a new organization).
   
5. 
   the event-oriented / non evaluative news report
   
6. 
   the event-oriented Etc.
   

As for the argumentation text type they have established the following text forms:

1. 
   the analytical through argument
   
2. 
   the horatory through argument
   
3. 
   the explicit (lopsided) counter-argument
   
4. 
   the suppressed counter-argument
   

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