Questões de Língua Inglesa

Based on the text, judge the following items.

Language users set up which style to adopt regardless of the text to be presented.

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Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items.

Concerning translation, faithfulness and adequacy can be used interchangeably as they both refer to the same translation strategy.

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In the fragment “…style may be regarded as a choice of linguistic means…” (L.10),

regard is the same as to look carefully at something or someone.

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Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items.

Formal correspondence is a concept which refers to the equivalence between the original text and the translated test in terms of register.

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In the fragment “…style may be regarded as a choice of linguistic means…” (L.10),

regard means to consider or have an opinion about something or someone.

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Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items.

Translation should be understood as communication and the search for an exact equivalence between the languages involved in the process.

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In the sentence

“She expected that he would be here before her arrival but he didn’t do so.”, “do so” refers to “be here before her arrival”.

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Judge the following items, which refer to text tipology.

In technical translation, the effect on the readers matters more than the actual words or the syntactic layout and the translator will probably follow an idiomatic or a free translation.

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In the sentence

“The new gas stove in the kitchen which I bought last month has a very efficient oven.”, the subject is “The new gas stove in the kitchen”.

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Judge the following items, which refer to text tipology.

Attempts at building text type based models for translation practice has proved controversial because text types often exhibit overlapping features.

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