Translation Thechniques Course

	DEFINITION	CHARACTERISTICS
TRANSLATION METHOD	Refers to the way a particular translation process is carried out in terms of the translator’s objective. The translation method affects the whole text are translated.	! Interpretative- Communicative Translation ! Literal Translation ! Free translation ! Philological
TRANSLATION STRATEGIES	Refers to the procedures (conscious and unconscious, verbal or nonverbal) used by the translator to solve problems that emerge when carrying out the translation process With a particular objective in mind. Strategies are part of the process	ü  Strategies of comprehension ü  Strategies of reformulation ü  Play an essential role in problem solving ü  Open the way to finding a suitable solution for a translation unit.
TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE	Refers to procedures to analyze and classify how translation equivalence works. It is the result of a choice made by a translator. A technique can only be judged meaningfully when it is evaluated within a particular context that affect micro- units of the text.	The technique is used functionally  and dynamically in terms of: ·         The genre of the text ·         The type of translation ·         The mode of translation ·         The purpose of the translation and the characteristics of the translations audience ·         The method chosen ·         It is by nature discursive and contextual ·         It is functional

FIRST TRANSLATION

By Carol Casas

LANDSCAPES WHICH INSPIRED THE GERUNDENSE’S LIFE AND WORK ART

Few artists have had such tied and fascination for his native land as Salvador Dali with the Empord. He admitted himself that Tramontane, the wind that often whips this Catalonia Comarca, was the responsible of his <<full madness>> In Empord, he was born, lived, made and he died. And so in this nook of Girona Province is exhibited the major of his legacy, in places which were witnesses of his life and sceneries to his inspiration.

To Understand Dali you have to visit Figueres, the city which saw his birth and where he had passed his youth. He was born in 1994, Monturiol Street, number six which later years he called it himself like << La calle de los Genios>> Dali was baptized in Saint Pere church, it was located in la Homónima Street, two blocks from his native house. In the same way is located the Toys Museum of Catalonia, where between porcelain dolls, baby laton carriages and zoo tropes, there, is an exhibit dedicated to Dali the boy, it has many familiar photographs and the inseparable artist’s toy: the Marquina teddy bear.

Near to the Museum is La Rambla in whose centric cafeterias a young Dali spent time drawing the life around him. In one of them at the Emporium Café, years later, he wrote the script for the movie an Andaluz dog (1929) together with Luis Buñuel.

As young, Dali just made from his life a constantly performance and he never was tired of giving solders reins to the extravagance. However, the end of that exhibitionism arrived in his mature with the restructuring that he led himself of Figueres Theatre to change it in the current Dali Theatre – Museum that, according to his words, it was <<an absolute surrealist object>>

The museum shows a great many unique works of arts and vintages form the artist and includes some of his most acclaim paintings, among them, self-portrait with fried bacon (1941), and Galatea of the Spheres (1952), besides sculptures, ceramics, engravings, photographs, holograms and the extraordinary collection of jewelries that he designed between 1941 and 1970.

During the artist adolescence, Dali’s family spent the summer just in Costa Brava, in the picturesque town of Cadaqués (to 21.74 miles). There Salvador had his first paint lesson in a fishing little house located next to Port Alguer, during the time he stayed in this place, he received visits of great friends like García Lorca and Buñuel, and there he bumped into the love of his life, Helena Ivanonvna- The world would meet her as Gala who stayed in the Miramar Hotel- Today La Residencia- to spend the summer of 1929.

Dali gave form to the landscapes he admired too much into pictures. The stony orography from the La Costa Brava between Cadaqués and the Natural Park of Cap de Creus, are discovered in handiworks like: Lady in the window (1925). The spectrum of the sex.appeal (1932) or the weaning of the food cabinet (1934). Another elements no landscapes passed to be as part of the Daliniano universe, too. For example, las espardenyes, the traditional shoes of La comarca that is represented in some of his sculptures, the porrones and the bread of Pagés that he used to introduce in his creations as art allegory <<art as food>>.

The route of Ampurdánes professor continues in the Portlligat plain sea village, two kilometres from Cadaqués where Dali and Gala moved in 1949 after his retirement in New York. His house, today a museum, shows again that Dali not only expressed the surrealism in his paintings, but also in his life.

The labyrinthine architecture, the multicolor stays and a Kitsch decoration – included a stuffed polar bear- were the couple’s love nest and the creative studio during more than three decades. The Museum House of portlligat has just opened a new exhibition space. The Ollas tower, where Dali used to work in his sculptures and ceramics.

From the couple’s sea village in Portlligat continues now, towards the Empord interior to know other enclaves of Dali´s route. A half centenary of kilometers is Dels Angels Sanctuary, in the top of a hill and surrounded by pine trees. There, betraying his exhibitionism, Gala and Dali got married in secret and in the most stricted intimacy in 1958.

Later years, Dali’s wife decided to retire from the public life, that’s why the marriage got the Púbol Castle to 10 kilometres. From the sanctuary which is where Gala moved when she was 76. She was in charged to decorate it with an aesthetic style that remembered her Russian aristocratic origin. The genius’ muse died in 1982, and after her embalmed, she was buried in the Castle’s crypt, dressed up with an elegant red dress of Dior. Just next to the crypt there was another one, it was initially to give burial to Dali, but it was left empty, because the ampurdanés genious at the end of his days’ life decided he wanted to be buried eternal in his native Figueres Museum ad he ordered to build a mausoleum in one of the rooms. There, he was buried in 1989, exactly 25 years ago.

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How to arrive: The nearest airport is Girona – Costa Brava, from Girona the highway A7 has a gate to Figueres, to 42 kilometres in the north.

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