B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017.
Fifth Semester
English Literature
Elective — TRANSLATION — THEORY AND PRACTICE
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 1 10)
Answer all the questions.
1. What is SL and TL?
2. What is machine translation?
3. What is decoding?
4. What is Paradigmatic equivalence?
5. What is lexical untranslatbility?
6. Why is the translator regarded as a discoverer?
7. What shall be the reward for the person who guides his
five senses as illustrated by G. U. Pope?
8. How does Bharathiar glorify our mother land?
9. What happens to Palani when he goes out fish at night?
10. What does Prem Chand call an office clerk?
Sub. Code
1BENE1A
AFC-10149
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Ws20
Section B x 7 35)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Is translation a secondary activity? Why?
Or
How does Catford classify translation?
12. What are the problems of equivalence?
Or
What is loss and gain in Translation?
13. Discuss the negative shift involved in translation.
Or
What are the problems faced by the translator while
translating a poem?
14. Sum up Bharathiar's views on the mother land.
Or
Write a note on G.U.Pope'S idea of Domestic Virtue.
15. Write a note on the protagonist in Prem Chand's
"Resignation".
Or
Write a note on the part played but Chembankunju
in Chemmeem.
AFC-10149
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Ws20
Section C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions in about 400 words each.
16. Trace the growth of translation studies.
17. Is translation an art or science?
18. Bring out the problems involved in literal translation.
19. Discuss the salient traits of GU.Pope's translation of
Thirukkural.
20. How does the novel Chemmeen express the aspirations,
struggle and grief in the lives of the fisherman of Kerala?
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