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Publication details [#21870]

Nida, Eugene Albert. 1964. Principles of correspondence. In Nida, Eugene Albert. Toward a science of translating: with special reference to principles and procedures involved in bible translating. Leiden: Brill. pp. 156–171.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

equivalence=non-equivalence | formalism | literal translation

Abstract

Since no two languages are identical, either in the meanings given to corresponding symbols or in the ways in which such symbols are arranged in phrases and sentences, it stands to reason that there can be no absolute correspondance between languages. Hence there can be no fully exact translations. In this article, the author first distinguished different types of translations and then focuses on two basic orientations in translating. Furthermore attention goes to the linguistic and cultural distance of the two codes involved and to formal and dynamic equivalence.

Source : F. Note

Reprints

Nida, Eugene Albert. 2000. Principles of correspondence. In Venuti, Lawrence and Mona Baker. The Translation Studies reader. London: Routledge. pp. 126–140.

Nida, Eugene Albert. 2012. Principles of correspondence. In Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation Studies Reader. London: Routledge. pp. 141–155.

Nida, Eugene Albert. 2004. Principles of correspondence. In Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation Studies reader. London: Routledge. pp. 153–167.