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translation: causes,
consequences and implications
TEACHING TRANSLATION
AND INTERPRETING 4
TTI 2014
University of Lodz, Poland
28-29 November 2014
Iwona Sikora
Czstochowa University of Technology
University of Applied Sciences in Nysa
Error Analysis
Defining errors
General definition of error:
error is a violation of norms/deviation from the accepted
standards
Error in second language teaching/acquisition
a deviation from a system of linguistic norms or rules
orthographic errors
interlingual/transfer
errors
punctuation errors
intralingual/develop
mental errors
syntactic errors
morphological errors
lexical and semantic errors
stylistic errors
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TRANSLATION ERROR:
translation norms
equivalence norms
social norms
Gouadec's fit-for-broadcast
2 acceptable after minor revision corresponds to
Gouadec's fit-for-delivery
0 unacceptable corresponds to Gouadec's rough-cut
(lexical and syntactic calques, wrong use of prepositions, grammar mistakes, word-forword translation, stylistic inconsistency, no attention to context)
COMMON ERRORS (PL-EN):
PUNCTUATION:
10,8 billion PLN/10,8 mld zl
polish capital market
, that
wrong spacing, double spacing, wrong use of hyphens and dashes, wrong use of capital letters
GRAMMAR:
- lack of articles, wrong use of articles: The Orlen
- wrong prepositions: in 25 July. I must deal on, pay attention on
- wrong tense: on 25th July Mr. X has taken
- wrong word order syntactic calque: outsourcing it also saves time; all activities take over by
the external companys specialist,
- lack of subject-verb agreement: Most of Europeans admits
- no s in genitive: accountant disease
LEXICAL:
- wrong word detaliczny detail, obsugiwany podmiot handled subject, cel biznesowy
business purpose; Norwegians are less willingly to emigrate; prace ziemne civil works
- wrong collocation/verb pattern: decides to outsourcing
- wrong number: every single institutions
- vocabulary is selected without attention to sentence context
STYLE AND REGISTER:
- inconsistency in the use of tenses or structures: it saves costs related to the employment of
workers, on the cost of their training (should be economize on costs related to and their
permanent training),
- colloquial style: survey made survey conducted
- unjustified changes in style or ways of addressing the reader
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