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46 BCE
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In his work De optimo genere oratorum he outlines his approach to translation as avoiding the then normal practice of word-for-word translation, aiming instead to reproduce the general style and force of the language (literal and free translation). -
395
St. Jerome
St. Jerome was the first to note differences between two versions of a bible (greek and hebrew). He explained that he had translated not word-for-word but sense-for-sense therefore setting out the dichotomy that would dominate much of the study of translation until the 20th century -
1250
Abbasid Period of translation
A period of intense translation activity centred in Baghdad, encompassing a range of languages and topics but centred on the translation into Arabic of greek scientific and philosophical material. -
1399
Leonardo Bruni
Italian humanist who translated philosophical works of the classical greek and latin authors, with a high ececclesiastical position. Bruni placed strong emphasis on retaining the style of the original author, which he saw he saw as an amalgam of the order and rhythm of the words and the polish and elegance of the original. The only correct way to translate. -
1522
Martín Luther
German priest and theologian who was a leading figure of the protestant reformation in europe. He translated first the new testament (1522) and later the old testament (1534) nto east central german. To the accusation that he had altered the holy scriptures in his translations, he countered by saying that he was translating into pure clear german and rejected the word-for-word translation strategy since it would be unable to convey the same meaning as the ST. -
1540
Étienne Dolet
In his 1540 manuscript la manière de bien traduire d’une langue en aultre, he set five principles of the process of translation in order of importance. Condemned for adding rien du tout (nothing t all) in a passage about what existed after death -
John Dryden
In his translation of Ovid’s Epistles in 1680, reduces translation in three categories. 1.-Metaphrase (word-for-word, literal translation)
2.- Paraphrase (sense-for-sense translation)
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Alexander Tytler
Alexander tytler in his treaty essay on The Principles of Translation constitutes one of the first comprehensive and systematic studies of translation with three general laws. -
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Schleiermacher in his seminal lecture On the different methods of translating (1813) distinguished 2 types of translation to move the writer to the reader (dolmetscher) or to move the reader to the writer (Ubersetzer). -
Yán Fù
Chinese thinker and translator who proposes three translation principles. Xìn (fidelity), dá (fluency) and ya (elegance) -
Machine Translation
Translation automatically generated by computer software. -
Vinay and Darbelnet
Jean paul vinay and Jean darbelnet in their stylistique comparée du français et de l’anglais described two different translation strategies and procedures. Direct and oblique translation. -
Roman Jakobson
In his paper On linguistic Aspect of Translation describes three categories of translation: Intralingual, Interlingual, and Intersemiotic. -
Eugene NIda
Linguist and translator
Nida described two types of equivalence in translation: formal and dynamic equivalence. For nida, the success of a translation depend above all on achieving an equivalent effect -
John C, Catford
In his book a linguistic Theory of Translation applies advances in linguistic to translation. Distinguishes between formal correspondence and textual equivalence in translation. -
James S. Holmes
Scholar who named and defined the field of translation studies as a distinctive discipline he put a framework of what translation studies should cover, comprising two branches, pure and applied. -
Gideon Toury
Gideon Toury Israeli scholar and founder of the branch of empirical descriptive translation studies. -
Susan Bassnett
Professor who founded the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, Uk -
Audiovisual Translation
Dubbing, voice-over and subtitling are the most common modalities adopted in audiovisual translation. -
Computer-assisted translation tools
CAT tools a term used to refer to different software applications used by professional translators to assist translation and localization.
