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Translation theory question - modulation?
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Hi guys, I just have a quick question regarding a translation theory term, modulation. I am currently studying a masters in translation and I am stuck on the term. Would the below be an example of modulation?! Since there is a change in perspective/ view?

in EN: "it is good for the environment"

in Irish: "it DOES good to the environment" / "déanann sé maitheas don timpeallacht"

Let me know what you think!

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Emily.
 
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@Emily Oct 31, 2020

Emily Staunton wrote:
I just have a quick question regarding a translation theory term, modulation. I am currently studying a masters in translation and I am stuck on the term.


I don't recall hearing this term during my studies. The second edition of Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies mentions it very briefly, "...modulation, ‘[a] translation method consisting of changing a point of view, an evocation, and often a category of thought’ (Vinay and Darbelnet 1995:346)." Is this what you're referring to? I'm afraid we did not spend much time on this theory when I studied for my translation degree in the 1990s.

Jeremy Munday's Introducing Translation Studies, Theories and Applications (4th ed) has a section on "Vinay and Darbelnet’s model" of translation, with its "two strategies and seven procedures", of which modulation is a strategy.

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"Modulation is a method in which translators try to maintain naturalness by using various form the message done by changing the point of view. This procedure is usually chosen when translators find that literal translation would result in awkward or unnatural translation."

https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/JOLL/article/download/1115/886

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"Modulation is a method in which translators try to maintain naturalness by using various form the message done by changing the point of view. This procedure is usually chosen when translators find that literal translation would result in awkward or unnatural translation."

https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/JOLL/article/download/1115/886

But, I don't really see any unnaturalness in "it is good for the environment" as it is.

I don't speak Irish; but, perhaps "the environment will/can/would/could benefit from it" is what was meant by "changing the point of view". ▲ Collapse


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