Lecture – 1 Aims and tasks of translation

The theory of translation provides the translator with the appropriate tools of analysis and synthesis, makes him aware of what he is to look for in the original text, what type of information he must convey in TT and how he should act to achieve his goal.

• The theory of translation provides the translator with the appropriate tools of analysis and synthesis, makes him aware of what he is to look for in the original text, what type of information he must convey in TT and how he should act to achieve his goal.

Analyzing a sentence

• A united nations envoy said (Friday after an inspection of Kazakhstans prisons) that he had found signs of systematic torture and had been denied full access to two of the most notorious jails.

• An important part of the general theory of translation is the theory of equivalence aimed at studying semantic relationships between ST and TT. semantic identity

'The student is reading a book".

• 'The student is reading a book".
• In Russian and Uzbek we do not get explicit information that it is some definite student but not some particular book or that the reading is in progress at the moment of speech. On the other hand, the Russian sentence conveys some additional information which is absent in the source text. We learn from it that the student is a male, while in ST it may just as well be a female. Then the translation implies that the student in the case is a college undergraduate,