THE PROCESS OF
TRANSLATION
How do you translate a
text?
Translate the Following Sentences
• Once upon a time,
there was a beautiful
princess named Snow
White
• Frequent loose stools
may mean labor is
imminent
Mental Process
Experience and
Habit
Pierce
Theories
Weick
PROCESS OF
TRANSLATION
Wheel of
Experience
SUBLIMINAL
FLOW STATE
CONSCIOUS
ANALYTICAL
STATE
• Translator isn’t
Subliminal even thinking
when doing a
State
translation
Concious • Translator can
finish the
Analytical
difficult jobs
State
HABIT
(SECOND
NATURE)
EXPERIENCE/
CONCIOUS
ANALYSIS
Pierce
instinct / experience/ habit
Begin with blind, intuitive, instinctive
sense in language, word and a syntactic
stucture (INSTINCT)
Find solution for the problem faced and let
her/him to translate more rapid and
effective ( Habit )
Translating the words/ phrases , moving
back and forth between two languages,
feeling similiarities/dissimilatities
(EXPERIENCE)
abduction
1. First Approach to
the foreign
language
2. First approach to
the source text
deduction
1. Translation methods,
principles, rules and
theories
2. The translator have
enough pattern and feel
confident
induction
The patterns begin to
emerge through all the
specifics (patternbuilding)
Karl Weick Theory
Retention
Selection
Enactment
“You do things”
“act–
response—
adjust”
“prepare yourself
for the new
things/the new
enactment”
Process Of Translation
(Pierce’s Theory)
Approach a text with an instinctive sense
first actual experience of a text
take an abductive guess
learn inductively (trial&error)
deduce patterns (fast and effective translation
become habit or second nature
Process of Translation
(Weick’s Theory)
translate
edit
sublimate
• Translate intuitively
• Think of what you’ve done
• Edit the text
• Internalized what you’ve learned
• Make it second nature
• Give and take process for later use
Habit
intuition
deduction
abduction
Wheel of
experience
EXPERIENCE
induction
MENTAL PROCESS OF
TRANSLATION
Conclusion
INSTINCT HABIT AND
EXPERIENCE IN THE PROCESS
OF TRANSLATION
TRANSLATOR ARE
A PROFESSIONAL AND
A LEARNER
Thank
You