CARS Quiz
20 questions · no time limit
0:00
REASONING WITHIN THE TEXT
Question 1 of 20
No time limit
Current
Answered
Flagged
Not seen
A literary critic argues that translation should be evaluated less by word-for-word fidelity and more by the social life a translated text acquires in its new language community. The author grants that strict fidelity can guard against the translator's overreach, especially when the source text carries legal or doctrinal weight. However, the author notes that many works circulate not as stable "originals" but as performances across editions, readings, and adaptations; in such cases, a translation that reads awkwardly may preserve lexical detail while undermining the very effects that made the text significant. A formalist objection within translation studies holds that the translator's duty is to preserve semantic content as precisely as possible, and that prioritizing reception invites distortion under the banner of accessibility. The author responds that reception is not a license for invention but a constraint of another kind: it requires attention to how meaning is produced in context, not merely where words point in a dictionary.
The author acknowledges which opposing viewpoint?
YOUR PROGRESS
20
QUESTIONS
Ready when you are
Answer in any order. Your progress shows here as you go.
QUESTIONS
KEYBOARD
Pick an answer ABCD
Next question ↵→
Previous ←
Flag for review F
Answers save as you go · flagged questions come back at the end