An Epistle to Translator: Prescribed Methods and its Application
Abstract
Translation categorically has been used to relocate written or spoken SL (Source Language) texts to equivalent written or spoken TL (Target Language) texts. In broad sense, the rationale behind translation is to replicate various kinds of texts—including religious, literary, scientific, and theoretical texts—in another language and thus making them available to wider readers.
If language were just a categorization for a set of common or widespread concepts, it would be easy to translate from an SL to a TL; in addition, under the circumstances the process of learning an L2 would be much easier than it essentially is. In same line of argument, Culler opines…
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