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Task 3 a) List important ideas. It is about a debate over the proper translation strategy chosen for the transmission of cultural contents. The two major approaches are domestication and foreignization.

b) Identify the key terms and the relationship between them. Domestication and foreignization.

c) Summarize important quotes taking the key term into account. Domestication refers to make the translated text intelligible and easy for the target readers. Foreignization is a source-culture-oriented translation which strives to preserve the foreign flavor as much as possible in order to transfer the source language and culture into the target one.

d) What are their positions in relation to the topic? "So far no theory can give a definite answer to the question, nor can any theorist completely negate one of them. Personally speaking, I thinks both domestication and foreignization are just two different strategies of translation and should complement with each other, because in translation practice, both methods have their functions which cannot be substituted. To strictly insist upon one another is just bring the strategy to extremes. Both strategies are justified if used in suitable situations from the perspective of the functionalist theory".

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