Hatim and Mason [Translation Theory and Practice] (Compressed Discussion)

Hatim and Mason [Translation Theory and Practice] (Compressed Discussion)

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  Hatim and Mason:The Semiotic Level of Context and Discourse Reported by Bea Patrizia Santos
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  Semiotic Level, Context,& Discourse Signs and sign processes The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed Conversation
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  Two other worksthat develop out of the Hallidayan model of language were especially influential for translation studies in the 1990s: Basil Hatim and Ian Mason’s Discourse and the Translator (1990) and The Translator as Communicator (1997).
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  Basil Hatim &Ian Mason
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  Analysis of functions Changesin the transitivity structure in the English translation are seen to cause a shift in the ideational function of the text. material process intention action process event process real action process
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  Modality Classification of logicalpropositions according to their asserting or denying the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content
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  Hatim and Mason’s‘foundations of a model for analysing texts’ incorporate and go beyond House’s register analysis and Baker’s pragmatic analysis. They combine the bottom-up analysis discussed in the Camus example with some top-down consideration of the semiotic level of the text.
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  Language and textsare considered to be realizations of sociocultural messages and power relations. They represent discourse in its wider sense, defined as modes of speaking and writing which involve social groups in adopting a particular attitude towards areas of sociocultural activity
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  A semiotic functionis also performed by idiolect and dialect. Hatim and Mason consider idiolect within the analysis of the tenor and register. The peculiarities and connotations of the dialect are unlikely to be replicated easily in any TT culture.
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  Although Hatim andMason propose ‘foundations’ for a model of analysing texts, they deal with a large number of concepts. It is not clear that their approach constitutes a model that can be ‘applied’ in the conventional sense of the term.