Translation Theory and Collocation Quiz
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1. The collocation restrictions are part of the:
- a. Evoked meaning
- b. Presupposed meaning
- c. Propositional meaning
- d. Understood meaning
2. Common problems of non-equivalence (tick the wrong option):
- a. Differences in frequency and purpose of using specific words
- b. The use of loan words in the source text
- c. Differences in expressive meaning
- d. Similarities in form
3. Tick the wrong statement:
- a. Words rarely occur on their own
- b. Words are strung together at random
- c. There are restrictions on the way words combine to convey meaning
- d. Restrictions are written down in the form of rules
4. Patterns of collocation:
- a. Are independent of meaning
- b. Are dependent on meaning
- c. Don’t reflect the preferences of specific language communities for certain modes of expression
- d. Are not arbitrary
5. Collocational ranges:
- a. Are variable
- b. Are invariable
- c. Are not fixed
- d. Are fixed
6. In translation, a good method of detaching oneself from the source text is:
- a. To put the draft translation aside for a few hours
- b. To produce the final version as soon as possible
- c. To rewrite the translation again
- d. To produce a couple of alternative translations
7. Fixed expressions and proverbs are:
- a. Flexible patterns of language which allow several variations in form
- b. Structures whose meaning can be deduced from their individual components
- c. Transparent in their meaning
- d. Structures which allow changes in the order of their words
8. The main difficulties involved in translating idioms or fixed expressions are (tick the wrong):
- a. An idiom or fixed expression may have no equivalent in the target language
- b. An idiom or fixed expression has an equivalent in the target language
- c. An idiom may be used in the source text in both literal and idiomatic senses at the same time
- d. The very convention of using idioms in written discourse may be different in the source text and target text
9. Grammatical choices (tick the wrong option):
- a. Are usually expressed morphologically or syntactically
- b. Are obligatory
- c. Include other choices from the same system by default
- d. Exclude other choices from the same system by default