Formal/contrastive correspondence and translation equivalence
Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: The paper reviews the use of the term formal correspondence in translation studies and its relationship to the term translation equivalence. It is shown that correspondence is established at the level of langue and equivalence at the level of parole. Since correspondence if the product of contrastive analysis of (parts of) linguistic systems, the term contrastive correspondence is to be preferred to formal correspondence (thus also avoiding the possible ambiguity of the term formal). The author presents his own method of extracting contrastive correspondents from translationally equivalent texts, relying on the notion of backtranslation, and describes their place among the elements that constitute the context of situation in which translation takes place and their role in achieving equivalence
Author: Vladimir Ivir
Language: French
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W201415745