Contrastive Linguistics In Translation : Its Validity And Application

Résumé: This paper attempts to show the relevance of contrastive linguistics to translation and particularly the relevance of the contrastive analyses carried out at the lexico-semantic and socio-cultural levels. Translation is therefore viewed here as a microlinguistic and macrolinguistic enterprise. It is commonly known and very frequently observed that there are serious problems encountered by translators at various levels of linguistic description: phonological, syntactic, lexico-semantic, discourse and cultural levels. At the end of this study, we concluded that the linguistic and cultural differences could be obtained through a systematic contrastive analysis of the languages under concern. Moreover, linguistics is very helpful to the translators as it offers them rigorous tools to analyse the different encountered difficulties.

Publié dans la revue: AL-MUTARĞIM المترجم