Considerations About Translation: Strategies About Frontiers (original) (raw)

The translation of any text focuses action and attention on the transference of a source language into a target language. It entails different methodological issues that range from linguistic treatment, grammatical issues of the languages considered, lexical issues and how to approach them, space and time considerations in a given textual construction, implied ethical questions, and so on. The approach to such issues varies from one translator to another. While some look for lexicographic patterns between the original text and its translation, others seek to convey the sense of the original text in the contexts of translation. Against this background, this chapter reviews some theoretical questions underpinning methodological approaches and those approaches as used in translation, along with