Translation Equivalence and Processes: A Comprehensive Analysis
Types of Equivalence
Koller outlines five types of equivalence to illustrate the different dimensions of equivalence in translation:
- Denotative Equivalence: This type of equivalence relates to the equivalence of the extralinguistic content of a text, also known as “content invariance.”
- Connotative Equivalence: It pertains to lexical choices, especially between near synonyms, and is sometimes referred to as “stylistic equivalence.”
- Text-Normative Equivalence: This type is linked to different text types
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Tenets of Chomsky’s Theory
Chomsky’s theory on language acquisition proposes that:
- Children possess an innate Universal Grammar (UG).
- The UG contains fundamental properties of language, initially with parameters allowing variation within innate predispositions.
- Language acquisition happens when the UG interacts with linguistic experience, evolving into a specific grammar (e.g., Spanish).
- Language acquisition isn’t a learning process dependent on intellectual problem-solving capacity.
Innate Capacities:
Understanding Language Context, Formality, and Word Formation
Background and Context
A text’s context and situation significantly impact its meaning:
- Context: The linguistic environment surrounding each element of the text, including the words and expressions adjacent to it.
- Extra-linguistic situation: The environment surrounding the text when it occurs, encompassing the circumstances of its creation and reception.
The situation in which communication occurs also influences language varieties, known as registers.
Formal and Informal Language
Formal Language: Planned,
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Read MoreUnderstanding Text Properties and Types
Text Properties: Adequacy, Coherence, and Cohesion
Sentences are connected in ordained sequences, paragraphs, making up a text or speech. This is language, the maximum unit of communication. Texts have three main properties: adequacy, coherence, and cohesion.
Adequacy
A text is an act of communication; its form and content should be adapted to the characteristics of the elements of the situation: who the sender and receiver are, the purpose, and the subject matter.
Coherence
The content of a text must
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