TOWARDS A PROPOSED REFINED CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSLATION STRATEGIES WITH REFERENCE TO WRITTEN DISCOURSE

Abstract

This paper provides a historical, analytical and thematic discussion related to the concept of translation strategies clarifying translation methods in contrast with translation strategies and procedures. During the review, those divisions of translation strategies which are considered as a “patent” or priority-due to the scholar/s are presented as “taxonomies” and any other category-wise review is presented as “classifications”. After a historical survey and analytical discussion of the literature review, the paper suggests a proposed refined classification of the translation strategies that can be applied while translating written discourse. That refined classification is adopted based on two criteria: workability and appropriacy. By Workability, the researchers mean the possibility of the application of the strategy. Besides, the chosen strategy should be appropriate to the students’ lexico-semantic level of competence and thus not ambiguous. In addition, it should be appropriate to the mode of the text i.e. the written mode, so those strategies related to verbal discourse interpretation are excluded. Due to the importance of translation strategies, these strategies shall be taught explicitly with more practice in the classroom.