20 Questions
The causal model of translation can be represented by using the symbol '>>' to mean 'causes' or 'produces'.
True
The proximate level of causality in translation refers to the translator's cognition and decision-making process.
True
The external conditions of the translation task include the source text, client's instructions, computer programs, and dictionaries.
True
The socio-cultural level of causality in translation is influenced by norms, history, ideology, and general economic goals.
True
A translation only has an influence on its readers and does not have any effects.
False
Comparative models can be implicitly causal if a particular equivalence relation can be read as a cause-effect sequence.
True
Process models do not allow for a causal reading.
False
Causality is not overt, central, or explicit in comparative and process models.
True
Comparative and process models help to explain why the translation looks the way it does and what effects it causes.
False
Causal models focus on 'what' and 'when' questions rather than 'why' questions.
False
The causal model of translation can be represented by using the symbol'>>' to mean 'causes' or 'produces'. This symbol indicates that translations involve both _______ and ________.
causes, effects
Factors on all three levels have an influence on the final form of the translation, the translation's ________ profile.
linguistic
A translation has an immediate effect on its readers: something changes in their ________ or emotional state.
cognitive
The second level is that of the external conditions of the translation task; Toury calls this the translation event. Relevant here are the source text, the client's instructions, the translator's computer programs and ________.
dictionaries
The third level is the socio-cultural one. Here, influential factors have to do with norms, translation traditions, history, ideology, general economic goals, the status of the languages involved. Factors here may affect the choice of particular texts to be translated, or the choice by the client of a particular translator, or the decision by the translator to translate in a particular ________.
way
The comparative model could be said to be implicitly ______ to the extent that a particular equivalence relation can be read as a cause-effect sequence.
causal
In the above two types of models causality is not overt, not central, and not explicit. Comparative models help us to describe the translation product and its relation with the source text and with non-translated texts, and process models help us to describe the production ______.
process
Process models are also open to a ______ reading, as soon as you say, for instance, that an output is caused by an input.
causal
Causal models bring in many more of the contextual variables we shall look at in Chapter ______.
6
Causal models focus on 'what' and 'when' questions rather than ______ questions.
'why'
This quiz explores the implicit causal interpretation in comparative and process models. It discusses how equivalence relations in comparative models and process models can be read as cause-effect sequences, leading to a causal interpretation.
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