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AT202 (Pre-Translation analysis and post-editing)
Week 2 — Worksheet
TEXT: Deborah Jackson, Baby Wisdom (London, 2002), Chapter 12: The Big Sleep
Seminar Question 1:
What is the subject matter of the text?
Is the subject bound to a particular cultural context? If so, which one?
Seminar Question 2:
NOW you have read the text in detail, return to the extratextual features you identified last week and consider their effect on the intratextual features of the text.
sender = Deborah Jackson, female, ‘Natural Parent’, 3 children of her own, expert in the field
thereforecontent is oriented towards the female experience;
pre-supposition that the ST recipient is familiar with the ‘western’ approach to parenting;
D.J’s attitude towards modern western parenting is revealed in the extended metaphor of war (l28-30)
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Seminar Question 3:
Which of the intratextual features of the text do you consider to be the most significant for you as a potential translator?
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