Questões de Inglês

Based on the text above, judge the items below. The word “rampant” (L.9) is the same as restrained.

Judge the following items, which refer to text tipology. Attempts at building text type based models for translation practice has proved controversial because text types often exhibit overlapping features.

Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items. Equivalence is a much debated term in translation studies for want of a widely accepted definition.

In the sentence “They give Anne a rather interesting book every single year.”, the verb give can be said to be a ditransitive verb.

Each of the following items offers a suggestion for a translation into Portuguese of some excerpts of the text above. If the proposed translation is accurate and acceptable, label the item C (certo). Otherwise, label it E (errado). “With the caveat that such stylistic factors work simultaneously and influence each other, the effect of one, and only one, stylistic factor on language use provides a hypothetical one-dimensional variety.”(L.23-26) — Considerando a limitação de que os fatores linguísticos trabalham simultaneamente e se influenciam, o efeito de um, e de tão somente um, fator estilístico no uso da língua fornece uma variedade unidimensional hipotética.

In the sentence “They elected Prof. Palmer the head of that department for the second time.”, “the head of that department” is a direct object.

Judge the following item on translation and semiotics. All texts can be analysed from a semiotic perspective.

Based on the text, judge the items from 111 to 120. The choice of language used in the second paragraph indicates the author’s certainty both about the existence of a large quantity of tongues spoken by humans and about the number of such languages.

Based on the text above, judge the following items. Virtual society has been regarded either as a moment of ideal perfection especially in social conditions, or as an imaginary situation in which everything in society is extremely bad.

Considering the text and the topics to which it refers, judge theitems below.

The notion of context has been extensively invoked and elaborated in the study of translation and interpreting.

Judge the following items based on the text above. The fragment “translational conundrums” (L.14-15) could be correctly and appropriately enigmas apresentados pelo texto original or as enigmas tradutórios.

Based on the text, judge the items from 111 to 120. The use of “runnels” in “the delicate runnels” (L.9) is connotative, for the primary meaning of runnel is a small stream or brook.

Judge the following items based on the text above. The translation act can be described as the rephrasing of original verbal utterances.

Based on the text, judge the following items. Language users set up which style to adopt regardless of the text to be presented.

Judge the following items, which refer to text tipology. The following text, adapted from the website www.bbc.co.uk can be said to be a descriptive text: “There is a surprising truth about how we all see the world. You may think a rose is red, the sky is blue and the grass is green, but it now seems that the colours you see may not always be the same as the colours I see. Your age, sex and even mood can affect how you experience colours”.

In the text, the word “bias” (R.5) can be correctly understood as the expressing of an unquestionable preference towards a particular subject or thing, while rejecting others.

Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items. Translation should be understood as communication and the search for an exact equivalence between the languages involved in the process.

Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items. Acceptations which go beyond the primary meaning of a linguistic expression can be said to be connotative.

Each of the following items offers a suggestion for a translation into Portuguese of some excerpts of the text above. If the proposed translation is accurate and acceptable, label the item C (certo). Otherwise, label it E (errado). “Operating at all linguistic levels (e.g. lexicology, syntax, text linguistics, and intonation), stylisticians analyze both the style of specific texts and stylistic variation across texts.” (L.6-8) — Ao operar em todos os níveis linguísticos (i.e, nos níveis lexicológico, sintático, da linguística textual e entoação), os estudiosos do estilo analisam tanto os estilos de textos específicos como a variação linguística através de textos.

In the sentence “Seeing the large crowd, John stopped his car.”, “Seeing the large crowd” is an adverbial clause.

Based on the text, judge the items from 111 to 120. In the first paragraph the author emphasizes the biological similarities presented by human beings and claims that people are the same but for the different languages they speak.

Based on the text above, judge the following items. Not only cultural theorists but also technophiles have quickly foreseen unimagined changes in our present-day orderly society.

In the text, the word “bias” (R.5) means often supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way by allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment.

Judge the following items based on the text above. Translators are near-omniscient beings consciously selecting solutions to semiotic translational problems.

Based on the text above, judge the following items. The widespread use of a networked medium has not yet come to be under total control.

Based on the text above, judge the following items. Nowadays, many people, the world over, are regularly involved in text-based CMC activities.

Based on the text, judge the following items. Several factors are supposed to be considered whenever a choice of style is required.

Judge the following items, which refer to text tipology. In technical translation, the effect on the readers matters more than the actual words or the syntactic layout and the translator will probably follow an idiomatic or a free translation.

Considering translation and some of the notions it envolves, judge the following items. Formal correspondence is a concept which refers to the equivalence between the original text and the translated test in terms of register.

Considering the text and the topics to which it refers, judge theitems below.

Humans should always produce the initial draft translation instead of post-editing a raw machine translation.