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Translational ActionTheoryPrepared by Argene M. Monreal
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Translation in the target language of what has been expressed
in
another, source language, preserving semantic and stylistic
equivalences.
(Chapter I Translation Denitions!. There are a lot of denitions
as to how
translation is being viewed by a translator, scholars and other
linguist that
we have considered to be professionals in translation.
"#owever,
distinguishes between two senses of translation$ wide and
narrow.
Translation is in a narrow sense, any translational action where
a source
text is transferred into a target culture and language.
%ccording to the formand presentation of the source text and to the
validity of the target text we
distinguish between oral translation (interpreting! and written
translation
(translation in a narrow sense!&. ('ord, ))*+ -!
In Translational Action Theory, the view of translation is
focused to
its purpose and outcome of the translated text by the time it is
translated
from the source text. Translation then on this basis is
associated with theinteraction of the source text and the
translated text (the translational
action). The interaction between the / and TT may refer to
the
communicative process (communicative process involving a series
of roles
and players, the most important of who are the producer of
source text,
the producer of the translated text or the translator, and the
last
recipient of the translated text or the reader of the translated
text.
Though the theory may put emphasis on the transmission
(message0
transmission! of the text as to how it is being transmitted from
the producer
of T to the nal recipient of the TT. "The theory stresses the
production ofthe TT as functionally communicative (translated text
valid for the nal
recipient!. 1or example, "the form and the genre (the
structure)of the TT,
for instance, must be guided by what is functionally suitable
(what is
suitable in the TT from the T!in the TT culture, which is
determined by the
translator or the expert in the translational processand whose
role is to
