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EQUIVALENCEBy: Odalys Chavez de R.

Maria Lopez

ISAE UNIVERSITY


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EQUIVALENTS TRANSLATION

Is above all an activity that aims at conveiningmeaning o meanings of a given linguisticdiverse from one language so another rather

than the words or grammatical structures of theoriginal, we should look briefle at the mostsignificantand recent development in the field ofstudy of meaning or semantic.


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The meaning of a given word or setof words is best understood as thecontribution that word or phrase

can make to the meaning orfunction of the whole sentence orlinguistic utterance where that word

or phrase occurs.


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The meaning of a given word isgovernment not only by the

external object or idea thatparticular word is supposed torefer , but also be the use of that

particular word or phrase in aparticular way in a particular

context and to particulate effect.


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The meaning of reference, is oftenrefered to as the referential

meaning, the lexical meaning theconceptual meaning or thedenotative meaning.


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EXAMPLES

Idioms with similar meanings can be found in manylanguages:

English: Call upSpanish: Llamar

French: tlphoner

German: anrufen

Chinese: da din-hu


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English: fill out

Spanish: llenarFrench: remplir

German: ausfullen

Chinese: bind English: let go ofSpanish: soltar

French: lacher

German: freilassenChinese: shfng


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PROVERBS

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PROVERBS

English: Between the word and the dedd, there isgreat gulf.

Spanish: Del dicho al hecho, hay mucho trecho.

English: Better alone than in poor company.

Spanish: Mejor solo que mal acompaado


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English: Tell me whoyou walk with and

you tell me who youare.

Spanish: Dime con

quien andas y tedir quien eres.


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In other words Equivalents translation

shoul operate in the way the givenlinguistic system is used for actualcommunicative purposes, not on thelevel of the referential meeaning of theformal sentence structure.


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If a specific linguistic unit in one language carriesthe same intended meaning / message encodedin a specific linguistic medium in another, then

these two units are considered to be equivalent.

Meaning

AnotherSpecific

Linguistic

Unit

SpeciicLinguistic

Unit

Equivalence


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The domain of equivalents covers linguistic units such as:

morphemes,

words,

phrases,

clauses,

idioms and

proverbs.So, finding equivalents is the most problematic stage oftranslation.


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But it is not meant that the translatorshould always find one-to-one

categorically or structurally equivalentunits in the two languages.

A word is enough to the wise.

A buen entendedor, pocas palabrasbastan.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the

bush.Ms vale pjaro en mano que ciento

volando.


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JAKOBSONANDTHECONCEPTOFEQUIVALENCE

Roman Jakobson's study of equivalence gave newimpetus to the theoretical analysis of translationsince he introduced the notion of equivalence indifference. He suggests three kinds of translation:

Intralingual: (within one language,rewording or paraphrase)

Interlingual (between two languages)

Intersemiotic (between sign systems)


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CONCLUSION

The notion of equivalence is one of the mostproblematic and controversial areas in the field oftranslation theory. The term has caused anextensive analyzes in translation studies. This

term has been analyzed, evaluated andextensively discussed from different points of viewand has been approached from many differentperspectives.

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