English Philology with Elements of Translation
(English Studies)

Filologia angielska z elementami translatoryki

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⇑English Philology with Elements of Translation at UwB

Field of studies: English Studies

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics. Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. A person who pursues this kind of study is known as a philologist.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Translation

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Wolf, On Not Knowing Greek

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Translation

I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum, there being certain graces and happinesses peculiar to every language, which give life and energy to the words... therefore if Virgil must needs speak English, it were fit he should speak not only as a man of this nation, but as [a] man of this age.

John Denham, The Destruction of Troy (1656), Preface.

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Philology

Philology always leads to crime.

Eugène Ionesco, The Lesson (1951)

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