Translation into English: Problems and Prospects

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Dr. Nilima Jha & Md. Eakub Ali Abstract: Translation is an intimate act of changing a work originally written in one language belonging to a certain culture into a different language belonging to another culture, retaining the nearest possible sense. The art of translation deals not merely with the act of changing the literal sense of the source language into the target language but of changing also the feeling, thought and character of the work, so that the finished translation is equal in quality to the original. Translation is a linguistic activity. It is a cultural activity. It is concerned with communication of meaning. The art of transferring the meaning of a text from the source language to the target language is a difficult task because it is not easy for the translator to find full equivalence of a source language word in another word in the target language. Key -Words:Translation, Problems, Communication, Equivalence, Language. Click here to print/download PDF of this research paper Introduction Translation, the practice of rendering a text originally written in one language belonging to a certain culture into a different language belonging to another culture, is a human activity of inter-lingual communication to understand global relations. The practice of translation where transference of meaning of a text from the Source Language (SL) to the Target Language (TL) gets prime importance, aims at offering the equivalent elements in the Target Language Text (TLT) ...