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Meta
Journal des traducteurs
Translators' Journal

Translation Principles vs. Translator Strategies

Kazem Lotfipour-Saedi

Volume 41, Number 3, septembre 1996 Article abstract

Having subscribed to a definite viewpoint on the nature of language and
URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/004015ar language use in interpersonal verbal transactions, one can set out to
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/004015ar characterize the principles governing the translation process. But due to the
highly volatile nature of the "context of situation" as a determining factor in
See table of contents the materialization of the language function, the translator cannot operate
rigidly according to a set of principles in dealing with every text-type. He
should rather use such principles as solid guidelines to make strategic
decisions appropriate for every specific context of situation. This paper will
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first outline the dimensions of translation equivalence within a discoursal
Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal approach to language. It will then speculate on the strategies the translator can
employ in relation to specific contextual and co-textual factors.
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0026-0452 (print)
1492-1421 (digital)

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Lotfipour-Saedi, K. (1996). Translation Principles vs. Translator Strategies.
Meta, 41(3), 389–392. https://doi.org/10.7202/004015ar

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