Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge as Prequisites to Learning Professional Translation

• List of Tables
  
• CONTENTS
  
• INTRODUCTION
  
• Chapter One
  
• LITERATURE REVIEW
  
  • 1.1. Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge
    
    • 1.1.1. Translation and Language
      
    • 1.1.1.1. Differences between languages
      
    • 1.1.2. The Translator's Linguistic Knowledge
      
    • 1.1.2.1. Knowledge of the native language
      
    • 1.1.2.2. Knowledge of the foreign language
      
    • 1.1.2.3. Textual knowledge
      
    • 1.1.2.4. Communicative competence
      
    • 1.1.2.5. Controlled linguistic knowledge
      
    • 1.1.3. Translation and Culture
      
    • 1.1.4. The Translator's Cultural Knowledge
      
    • 1.1.5. Learning Culture
      
  • 1.2. Translation Competence
    
    • 1.2.1. The Term Translation Competence
      
    • 1.2.2. Translation Competence Versus Linguistic
      
    • 1.2.3. Nature of Translation Competence
      
    • 1.2.4. Translation Competence Acquisition and
      
    • Language Learning
      
  • 1.3. Some Aspects of the Activity of Translation
    
    • 1.3.1 Translation Problems
      
    • 1.3.1.1. Translatability
      
    • 1.3.1.2. Peeter Torop's Scheme of Culture Translatability
      
    • 1.3.2. Translation as Decision Making
      
    • 1.3.3. Some Aspects of the Translator's Responsibility
      
  • 1.4. An Account for Admission Requirements in
    
  • Some Foreign Translation Schools
    
    • 1.4.1. "Institut de Traduction" at Montréal University
      
    • in 1967
      
    • 1.4.2. "L'Université du Québec en Outaouais" in 2004
      
    • 1.4.3. "Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs" at "l'Université Paris III" in 2004
      
    • 1.4.4. Views of Some Translation Scholars and
      
    • Teachers
      
    • 1.5. Measuring Translation Learning Progress
      
    • 1.5.1. Campbell's Developmental Scheme
      
    • 1.5.2. Orozco and Hurtado Albir's Model
      
    • 1.5.3. Waddington's Experiment
      
    • Conclusion
      
• Chapter Two
  
• METHODOLOGY DESIGN
  
  • 2.1. The Ex Post Facto Study
    
    • 2.1.1. Research Questions
      
    • 2.1.2. Operational Definitions of Variables
      
    • 2.1.3. Choice of Method
      
    • 2.1.4. The Ex Post Facto Design
      
    • 2.1.5. Sampang
      
    • 2.1.6. Data Collection Procedures
      
    • 2.1.7. Statistical Analysis
      
    • 2.1.7.1. Means Comparison: Research Questions (a) and (b)
      
    • 2.1.7.1.1. Language Means Comparison
      
    • 2.1.7.1.2. Culture Means Comparison
      
    • 2.1.7.2. Correlation: Research Questions (c) & (d)
      
    • 2.2.2.5.3.2. Arabic Culture Test Quantitative Description
      
    • 2.2.3. Third Year Translations' Evaluation
      
    • 2.2.4. 2.2.3.1. Objectives
      
    • 2.2.3.4. Tests Materials and Administration
      
    • 2.2.3.5. Translations' Evaluation
      
    • 2.2.3.4.1. Arabic-English translations' evaluation Qualitative Description
      
    • 2.2.3.4.1. English-Arabic Translations' Evaluation Qualitative Description
      
    • 2.2.4. Results' Summary
      
    • 2.2.4.1.2. General Culture
      
    • 2.2.4.2. Third Year Students' Translation Competence
      
    • 2.2.4.2.1. Arabic-English
      
    • 2.2.4.2.2. English Arabic
      
    • Conclusion
      
• Chapter Three
  
• DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  
  • 3.1. Results' Discussion and Interpretation
    
  • 3.2. Recommendations
    
• GENERAL CONCLUSION
  
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
• APPENDIX C
  
• RAW DATA OF THE EX POST FACTO STUDY