Translation- A note- 1
Translation is a kind of activity which inevitably involves at least two languages and two cultural traditions." (Toury 1978). As this statement implies, translators are permanently faced with the problem of how to treat the cultural aspects implicit in a source text (ST) and of finding the most appropriate technique of successfully conveying these aspects in the target language (TL). These problems may vary in scope depending on the cultural and linguistic gap between the two (or more) languages concerned (Nida 1964). Translation studies-relating both to questions of theory and practice-represent a growing body of work which, in recent times, has received insightful inputs from scholars working within different disciplines- linguistics, semiotics, culture studies, literary theory, psychology, etc. this confluence and convergence on translation has not only elevated it form a second rate activity to a ‘high pedestal’ of a discipline, but also brought into sharp focus the ‘tra...