Effectiveness of Context on Translation in Literary Works

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10.2991/icelaic-15.2016.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

context; translation; effectiveness; literary works

Abstract

Context has very close connection with translation especially with literary translation. In literary works, context has an important function restricting translation process, and in turn translation, to a large degree, depends on context. Context is indispensable for translators to correctly understand the original text and to achieve functional equivalence in translation. This paper, from the perspective of systemic-functional linguistics, holds that context is the key to comprehend the original text, and that only when we convey the true communicative intentions of the original work via context, can it be possible to guarantee the maximum success of translation in literary works.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Effectiveness of Context on Translation in Literary Works
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
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