M-+Nico+Wiersema

Task 3 - Globalization and Translation

 * a) List important ideas:**


 * According to the author, due to the current trend of globalisation, the translator no longer has the absolute need to always find a translation of a term in the target language if this would make the target-language text lose credibility;
 * target-language terms can be enlightening to the reader in that they reflect source cultures in a more genuine and correct manner;
 * In each translation there will be a certain //distortion between cultures//. The translator will have to defend the choices he/she makes, but there is currently an option for including more foreign words in target texts.
 * Globalisation is linked to English being a //lingua franca *// ; the language is said to be used at conferences (interpreting) and seen as the main language in the new technologies. The use of English as a global language is an important trend in world communication.

*//língua de contato// ou //língua de relação// resultante do contacto e comunicação entre grupos ou membros de grupos linguisticamente distintos para o comércio internacional e outras interacções mais extensas. ( wikipedia)

** b) Identify the key terms and the relationship between them. **

"trend of globalisation" : the translator no longer has the absolute need to always find a translation of a term in the target language if this would make the target-language text lose credibility " excessive translation": a translation that fails to foreignise, use source-language terms in the target-language text, to the degree that I believe is now acceptable. "distortion between cultures " : The translator will have to defend the choices he/she makes, but there is currently an option for including more foreign words in target texts.


 * c) Summarize important quotes taking the key term into account.**

"To my mind, such comments can be extended to the readers of translations. Should the target text be challenging for a reader, the Internet can help him understand foreign elements in the text. Thus the text can be written in a more foreignising/exoticising manner." (Nico Wiersema) "Future translations need to be as foreignising as possible within the limits of reasonable acceptability." (//Nico Wiersema)// "If texts can be said to belong to certain people or certain situations, then transfer away from these people and situations must change the nature of the belonging, gradually turning degrees of familiarity into degrees of foreignness." //(Anthony Pym// - //Translation and Text Transfer: An Essay on the Principles of Intercultural Communication// (1992) ).

The author supports foreignization and think that being loyal to the source-language the reader would get the real meaning of it. He also claims that globalization is helping people to get used to read foreig words and therefore, understand them without" translating into a better word" in the target language.
 * d) What are their positions in relation to the topic?**