Communicative competence draws a link between language use and context by viewing language from the perspective of how users employ it in real situations. It takes into account factors beyond just words, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, relationships between speakers, their backgrounds, and the time, place, and shared culture of the interaction. These factors together make up the context, which is relevant to whether a particular utterance is appropriate. Translation involves decisions about when to explain and elaborate versus staying close to the original, as there are valid reasons to modify how something is said to fit the conventions of another language. Translation studies has a longer history than applied linguistics and involves an ongoing debate around how closely to follow the original versus intervening to make
Communicative competence draws a link between language use and context by viewing language from the perspective of how users employ it in real situations. It takes into account factors beyond just words, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, relationships between speakers, their backgrounds, and the time, place, and shared culture of the interaction. These factors together make up the context, which is relevant to whether a particular utterance is appropriate. Translation involves decisions about when to explain and elaborate versus staying close to the original, as there are valid reasons to modify how something is said to fit the conventions of another language. Translation studies has a longer history than applied linguistics and involves an ongoing debate around how closely to follow the original versus intervening to make
Communicative competence draws a link between language use and context by viewing language from the perspective of how users employ it in real situations. It takes into account factors beyond just words, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, relationships between speakers, their backgrounds, and the time, place, and shared culture of the interaction. These factors together make up the context, which is relevant to whether a particular utterance is appropriate. Translation involves decisions about when to explain and elaborate versus staying close to the original, as there are valid reasons to modify how something is said to fit the conventions of another language. Translation studies has a longer history than applied linguistics and involves an ongoing debate around how closely to follow the original versus intervening to make
Communicative competence draws a link between language use and context by viewing language from the perspective of how users employ it in real situations. It takes into account factors beyond just words, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, relationships between speakers, their backgrounds, and the time, place, and shared culture of the interaction. These factors together make up the context, which is relevant to whether a particular utterance is appropriate. Translation involves decisions about when to explain and elaborate versus staying close to the original, as there are valid reasons to modify how something is said to fit the conventions of another language. Translation studies has a longer history than applied linguistics and involves an ongoing debate around how closely to follow the original versus intervening to make
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What is culture?
Write a brief essay about Translation, culture, and
context
Q1 / How communicative competence can draw a link between
language in use and context ?
For its users , instances of language are never abstracted . They always happen in specific situations . They belong to particular people and are used to realize those people's purposes . Communicative competence is in its way for instances of language an abstraction . In the actual experience of language its four parameters ( possibility , feasibility , appropriateness , attestedness ) are neither as discrete nor as static as the model is sometimes taken to suggest . Yet , it is different kind of abstraction from descriptions of the formal systems of grammar and sound , and it views language from a different perspective . It points the way towards the analysis of language in use , ( the language of the users ) enabling us to take into account many relevant factors other than the words themselves . The other factors are many . All of the following , for example , might be involved in interpreting a real counter : tone of voice and facial expression ; the relationship between speakers ; their age , sex , and social status ; the time and place ; and the degree to which speakers do – or do not – share the same cultural background . Collectively such factors are known as context , and they are relevant to whether a particular action or utterance is , to use Hymes' tem , appropriate .
What is culture? Write a brief essay about Translation, culture, and
context ( FEATURE 1 )Translation is to be taken about designated where at every step decisions must be taken about when to provide explanation and extra detail , and how far to depart from the original .This even occurs in the translation of a relatively simple business letter for example , there will be valid reasons not to use a literal translation but to mould what is said in one language to the conventions of another . The field that is concerned with the previous feature and many other areas of translation now commonly referred to as translation studies . ( Feature 2 ) Translation studies has a far longer history than applied linguistics . ( Historical feature about translation studies , theories , practice ) Theories and practices of translation have changed but at their heart is a ( THE NATURE OF THE DEBATE ) recurring debate , going back to classical times , about the degree to which a translator should attempt to render exactly what is said , or intervene to make the new text flow more smoothly , or achieve a similar effect as the original . Word - for - word translation degree dimension , for example , is impossible if the aim is to make sense . This is clear even when translating the most straightforward utterances between closely related languages ( 3 ) .
