TEXT ANALYSIS

Group 1: Tôn Nguyễn Quỳnh Anh

Trần Lưu Ly
Nguyễn Thu Nhàn
Trịnh Thị Quế
Outline

I. Warm-up: Quiz

II. Text analysis

III. Wrap-up
 QUIZ RULES

 4 groups
 Follow the requirement of each question
 Follow the instruction of presenters
 Question 1
Why is it important to analyze the source text?

 Translability of the text

→ Right choice of translation methods
→ Specific transference
Question 2. Fill in the blank

“________________________ represents the SL

The intention of the text
writer’s attitude to the subject matter.”
Question 3. Fill in the blank

There are 4 types of text, which are _________,

narrative
__________,
dialogue ___________,
descriptionand ___________.
discussion
 Question 4

Name 3 types of readership

 the expert
 the educated layman
 the uniformed
Question 5
Identify the level of formality and translate:

“If you need a friend, just text me. If you need

a good laugh, just give me a call. If you need
money, I'm not contactable!!”

→ Informal
 Question 6
“Chinese people”

 Translate this phrase into Vietnamese in as many

ways as possible

 Considering the setting of the translation: it will be

published in children’s textbooks, which options
will you choose?
Question 7
What is the emotional tone of the passage?

“There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but when

it comes to dating, birds of a feather flock
together.” (CNN)

→ Factual
 Question 8. Translate into Vietnamese

 If you want I will afternoon you

 I wanna toilet kiss you
 Know die now
 You ugly bottle exceed god
 No table
 Sugar sugar a hero man
Question 8

If you receive a document, most of which is like

those, will you agree to translate it? Why?

→ The quality of the text

TEXT ANALYSIS
Text 1

 Holy Bible
Exodus 1: 1 -7
 King James
Version
Exodus 1: 8-10:  Now there
arose up a new king over Egypt,
which knew not Joseph. 9 And he
said unto his people, Behold,
Truyền thống
the people of the children of Phan Khôi - 1926
Israel are more and mightier
than we: 10 come on, let us deal
Truyền thống hiệu
wisely with them; lest they
đính
multiply, and it come to pass,
that, when there falleth out any
2010
war, they join also unto our
enemies, and fight against us,
and so get them up out of the
 King James
Version
Exodus 1: 8-10:  Now there
arose up a new king over Egypt,
which knew not Joseph. 9 And he
said unto his people, “Behold,
the people of the children of
Israel are more and mightier
than we: 10 come on, let us deal
wisely with them; lest they
multiply, and it come to pass,
that, when there falleth out any
war, they join also unto our
enemies, and fight against us,
and so get them up out of the
Truyền thống
Phan Khôi - 1926
Xuất Ê-dip-tô Kí: Nhưng
bấy giờ tại nước Ê-díp-tô, có
một vua mới lên ngôi, chẳng
quen biết Giô-sép. Vua phán
cùng dân mình rằng: Nầy, dân
Y-sơ-ra-ên đông và mạnh hơn
chúng ta; hè! ta hãy dùng
chước khôn ngoan đối cùng
họ, kẻo họ thêm nhiều lên,
một mai nếu có cơn chinh
chiến xảy đến, họ sẽ hiệp
cùng quân nghịch đánh lại ta,
và ra khỏi xứ chăng”.
  Ê-díp-tô

?
 Nầy
 Hè
 chước khôn ngoan đối cùng họ
 một mai
 cơn chinh chiến

Readership: Word choice

People in
1926 Utterance
 Readership:
 People in 21st centrury

Sau đó có một vua mới lên ngôi The

cai trị Ai-cập và vua này không utterance,
biết Giô-sép. 9 Vua bảo thần dân the world
rằng: "Kìa, dân Y-sơ-ra-ên bây giờ choice are
more up-to-
quá đông và mạnh hơn chúng ta.
date and
10 Chúng ta phải khôn khéo đối attractive
xử với họ, e rằng họ cứ tiếp tục gia to the
tăng và đến khi có chiến tranh, họ readers.
sẽ cấu kết với quân thù, đánh lại
chúng ta và trốn thoát khỏi xứ."
 Other
readerships
Experts: Uneducated:
Theologist Children
Readership
counts!
 Text 2

 Syria needs new constitution, says

Russia's Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Syria needs to start
working on a new constitution as a first step to finding a
political solution to its civil war, though he acknowledged the
process was likely to be difficult.
Putin, who has thrown Russia's support behind Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad with air strikes, also said in an interview with
the German newspaper Bild that the crisis in relations between
regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran would complicate the
search for peace in Syria.
"I believe it's necessary to move toward constitutional reform
(in Syria). It's a complicated process, of course. And after that,
on the basis of the new constitution, (Syria should) hold early
presidential and parliamentary elections", Putin said in the
interview which was conducted on Jan. 5. […]
 Analysis
 Intention of the text
news report
 Intention of the translator
news for Vietnamese readers => Same intention
 Text types
narrative and discussion => short and straight-forward language
 Readership
general, educated public => easy-to-understand language,
without jargons
 Analysis
 Stylistic scales
 Formality: semi-formal
 Generality: educated
 Emotional tone: factual
 Setting
newspapers
 Quality
well-written and authoritative
→ No need flowery language, objective tone, no attitude
added
 Text 3

 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
 Project implementation status Disbursement
 Disbursement Plan Q II/2014:
 1.1.2.   Activity 2: Building capacity of management
units of MARD and project provinces on monitoring
quality of biogas plants on livestock waste management.
 CPMU has organized a training workshop on small-scale
livestock waste management technology for PPMUs in
Hai Phong from 02 to 06/12/2013.
 Moreover, CPMU has completed the procedure to
organize 04 training courses for provincial technicians to
participate in supporting technology of building small
biogas plants and 02 dissermination training workshops
for senior staffs of MARD on livestock waste
management and low carbon agricultural production
technology, it is supposed to organize 06 training
workshops in May and Jun 2014.
 Analysis
 Intention of the text
Report the first quarter project implementation status
by Low Carbon Agriculture Support Project, Agriculture
Project Management Board , Ministry of Agricultural and
Rural Development (MARD)
 1.1.2.   Activity 2:  Hoạt động 2: Tăng
Building capacity of cường năng lực cho
management units of các đơn vị quản lý của
MARD and project Bộ NN & PTNT và các
provinces on
tỉnh tham gia dự án
monitoring quality of
về giám sát chất
biogas plants on
livestock waste lượng quản lý công
management. trình khí sinh học và
quản lý toàn diện chất
thải chăn nuôi.
 CPMU has organized a  Ban Quản lý dự án
training workshop on Trung ương đã tổ chức
small-scale livestock Hội nghị tập huấn
waste management công nghệ quản lý
technology for PPMUs chất thải toàn diện
in Hai Phong from 02 quy mô nhỏ tại Hải
to 06/12/2013. Phòng từ 02-
06/12/2013 cho các
Ban QLDA Tỉnh.
  Ngoài ra, dự án Trung
 Moreover, CPMU has
completed the procedure
to organize 04 training
courses for provincial
technicians to participate
in supporting technology
of building small biogas
plants and 02
dissermination training
workshops for senior staffs
of MARD on livestock
waste management and
low carbon agricultural
ương đã hoàn tất thủ tục
để tổ chức 04 lớp tập
huấn cho kỹ thuật viên
các tỉnh tham gia hỗ trợ
kỹ thuật xây hầm khí
sinh học quy mô nhỏ và
02 hội thảo tập huấn
tuyên truyền cho cán bộ
lãnh đạo thuộc Bộ Nông
nghiệp và PTNT về quản
lý toàn diện chất thải
chăn nuôi và công nghệ
sản xuất nông nghiệp
 Analysis

 Intention of the translator

 The text was originally written in English
 Translated into Vietnamese? – what for

 Text type
Description
 Analysis
 Readership:
All Vietnamese officers working in the Low carbon
agriculture support project, agriculture project
management board , Ministry of agricultural and rural
development
 Analysis

 Stylistic scales
Official – formal
 Text 4
 Author:
Leah Rae Miller
 Genre:
Young Adult, Teen, YA
Contemporary
 Release Date:
May 2013
 Analysis
 Context of the excerpt
 17-year-old Madelyne Summers
 Favourite comic book: The Super Ones
 Longing to buy The Super Ones #400
 Running into a guy in front of The Phoenix, a
bookstore
→ Making a deal with him for buying The Super
Ones #400
“What do you want?”
“I give you money, you go in there”—I shove a thumb at the wall
behind me—“and buy me a copy of The Super Ones #400. You get
the change and five extra bucks. Deal?” I stare at him over the tops
of my sunglasses.
“Why don’t you buy it yourself?”
“I just can’t, okay? So, do we have a deal?”
“Make it ten dollars, plus the change.” He crosses his arms like he’s
haggling at a swap meet.
My mouth drops open. “But I don’t have any more cash. Just ten
dollars, three dollars for the book, leaving seven dollars for you.
Come on!”
“Nothin’ doin’.” He shakes his head and walks away.
The bell rings as he goes inside, and I flop against the brick wall of
the store. What a jerk!
“It’s okay,” I say out loud. “Someone else will be by any second.”
 Analysis
 Text type:
narrative & dialogue
 Stylistic scale:
informal
 Analysis
 Setting:
forum (compilation of translated books)
 Readership:
Vietnamese netcitizens / people interested in
books...

Want to give it a try?

“Cô muốn gì?”
“Tôi sẽ đưa tiền, chú vào đó” Tôi giơ ngón cái về phía bức tường
phía sau “và mua cho tôi quyển Những-Kẻ-Siêu-Phàm tập 400. Chú
được lấy tiền thừa và 5 đô thêm.”
“Được chứ?” Tôi nhìn chằm chằm ông ta qua kẽ trên của cặp kính
râm.
“Sao cô không tự đi mua đi?”
“Tôi không thể, được chưa? Vậy chúng ta có thỏa thuận không
đây?”
“10 đô cộng tiền thối thì được.” Ông ta khoanh tay và trả giá.
Tôi há hốc miệng. “Nhưng tôi chỉ có 10 đô thôi. Ba cho quyển
truyện và bảy đô cho chú. Đồng ý đi!”
“Vậy thì không nhé.” Ông ta lắc đầu và bước đi.
Cái chuông cửa reo lên khi ông ta bước vào Tiệm Phượng Hoàng,
 WRAP-UP

 In 20 seconds, list 7 main factors of text

analysis 
 7 factors of text analysis
1. The intention of the text
2. The intention of the translator
3. Text types
4. Readership
5. Stylistic scopes
6. Setting
7. The quality of the source text
 Reference
 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-putin-idUSKCN0UQ09
H20160112
 http://laodong.com.vn/the-gioi/tong-thong-nga-syria-can-cai-cach-hien-phap
-414926.bld
 http://www.entangledpublishing.com/the-summer-i-became-a-nerd/
 http://tve-4u.org/threads/the-summer-i-became-a-nerd-leah-rae-miller.13108/