Revue de Recherches et Etudes Scientifiques
Volume 11, Numéro 1, Pages 413-431
2017-06-30

Translation Competence And Linguisticskills

Authors : Fayrouz Toualbi Selougha .

Abstract

Translation plays a significant role in today’s society. It has a multidimensionalinfluence. It not only paves the way for global interaction, but also allows nations to forge interactive relationships that lead to further advancements and progress in different societal fields such as politics, economy, and medicine and so on… The activity of translation has always had an outstanding and paramount status in all societies and has widely been practiced throughout history. Yet, in our rapidly changing world its role is becoming more and more crucial because of the motivation for knowledge sharing, cultural exchanges and intensification of international communication. Hence, the phenomenon of translation has become fundamental. Be it for scientific, medical, technological, commercial, economic, legal, cultural or literary purposes.In fact, the most basic human communication depends heavily on translation. Hence, interest in translation is clearly justified. Newmark defines translation as "a craft consisting in the attempt to replace awritten message and/or a statement in one language by the same message and/orstatement in another language." (1981:7) Similarly, Mohammad Akbar expresses the importance of translation through the following words:

Keywords

translation- translator- source language – target language- translation competence- bilingualism- linguistic skill- grammatical skill- pragmatic skill- textual knowledge- pragmatic- functional-communicative