Translating Relative Clauses from English into Vietnamese in “The Old Man And The Sea” by Hemingway: Modes of Translating Relative Clauses in a Work

Abstract

The aim of this study is to exammine abilities and skills that translator needs to develop translation theories and models. Specifically, this thesis focuses on the translation relative clauses from English to Vietnamese. The study starts with the theoretical background which elaborates on the notion of translation, translation equivalence as well as translation methods and procedures. Translation contains different mental activities such as language, thinking, problem solving, memory, conceptualization, learning, information processing, perception, understanding, re-expression etc., which makes translation a complex phenomenon.Translator is not a passive element but an expert, who senses, processes the stimuli, signifies, and produces meanings again in another language. In order to make these entire operations a translator should equip herself/himself with translation skills and abilities. Specially, being aware of the skills required for the translation task, in this paper I aplicate translation skill relative clauses into the literary. I hope that, with this study students will aware of the skills required for the translation and find new ways to overcome all the difficulties faced during the translation task in the long run not confine themselves to the mere translation courses at school.