Translation I (2018-1)
Professor
Norma Beatríz Díaz Álvarez
Translation's definitions
Cesar Arias’ Definition: Translation is the art of letting the world understand the different perspectives of language.
Julián David Aguirre Garzón’s Definition: Translation is an interactional or cultural fact; we really transmit one message from one target to the other one. We are really in contact with the communication part, so it is just to be understandable to transmit messages and culture.
Ana Maria Cardona Cuervo’s definition: Translation is an interpretation from one language to another one, by rendering the original message of a source-language text to the equivalent target-language, without losing or changing the author’s original intention.
Laura Camila Colorado’s Definition: Translation is the art of constructing one message to a language into another one. It is also to transmit culture in order to get the enrichment of the language.
Jackeline Duque Gonzalez’s Definition: Translation is the art of decodifying a message from one language and transmitting into another one spreading culture to strengthen languages.
Erika Gallego Caviedes’ Definition: Translation is a field that helps us to get more knowledge about language and also helps us to get a closer relationship with culture, context and author’s intention.
Laura María Giraldo Marín’s Definition: Translation is the art and the ability to understand and deliver a message from one language to another one taking into account the sociocultural elements, linguistics (lexical grammar), pragmatics features, context and background without changing the intention of the author.
Oscar Gonzalez’s Definition: Translation is the art to connect two or more cultures to facilitate the communication through written elements in which we convey meaning.
Alexandra Jiménez Echeverri's Definition: Translation for me is the competence to decodify messages from one language to another. The aim in this field is to be faithful to all languages.
Juan Diego Londoño's Definition: Translation is an art and a skill that helps to get more knowledge, transforming one message from a particular language into another one, taking into account pragmatic features, context and background.
Angélica María Montoya Trejos' Definition: Translation is a skill that can help us to have a better relationship between two different cultures through a written way.
Juan Diego Peláez Londoño's Definition: Translation is an art which helps us to bond different cultures, allowing people to communicate effectively.
Natalia Pérez Martínez's Definition: Translation is considered an art, a discipline and a skill to deconstruct a language into another in order to transmit a message, and taking into account culture, context and background in an objective manner.
Manuela Pulgarin’s Definition: Translation can be seen under different perspectives. It is an art, a skill and a human science that helps not only to get more knowledge, but also to decodify a message from one language to another one taking into account culture, context and author’s intention.
Laura Puerta Ortegón’s Definition: Translation is the art to interpret and decodify messages from one language to the other one. Translation is to share culture and knowledge among societies through language.
Juan Sebastian Quimbayo Cifuentes’ Definition: Translation is a way to extend our communication with others. It is not only to know what are saying, it is to understand and comprehend the world from different perspectives to be able to share our own experiences into a written way to others.
Andres Santamaria’s Definition: Translation is a noun that allows to convey meaning to another culture and to acquire knowledge that we can find in other language but not ours. And it also allows to take the information in our own language.
Daniel Lesmes’s Definition: Translation is the art to transform knowledge from one language to another. Also, translation lets us travel to different cultures without leaving our home.