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What matters more is the ways and means of achieving a reliable
translation. The text-typological model is certainly of enormous help
in discourse analysis.
THE HERMENEUTIC MODEL
Interpretive translation is based on the view that translation is
not an interlingual or intercultural operation but is genuinely a
purely textual activity. This view virtually owes it existence to the
recent contributions in poetics and text-linguistics. The
text/discourse analysis model suggests that the source text, co-text,
and context be comprehensively envisioned and delineated. This means
that the translator is expected to consider the entire communicative
situation and, consequently, analyse its constituent elements. To
achieve this, he will have to draw upon comparative grammar,
comparative culture, socio-linguistics, stylistics, and literary
criticism. The text/discourse analysis model apparently tries to
effect a reconciliation, or at least a balance, between existing
translation models. But this model fails to resolve the basic
interpretive issue, particulary where literary translation is
involved. The problem with literary translation lies in the relative
undefinability , unidentifiability and indertminancy of its relevant
pragmatic values. It is over this specific issue that translation
theorists and translation practitioners widely disagree.
Nevertheless, one should not underestimate the text/discourse analysis
model which views the text as a communicative event set in a labyrinth
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