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components. However, more important than these is the 'equivalence'
criterion towards which these elements are oriented, and for the
achievement of which they functionally interact.
Since the concept of equivalence is a much-debated and debatable
one, the second chapter deals, at a greater length, with various
approaches to translation and how each claims to have achieved
equivalence between source and target texts. Existing models have been
reviewed together with the rhetorical model which is based on the
concept of meaning shifts.
In the third chapter, we found it necessary to explain how the
rhetorical model could be manipulated and oriented towards the
explication of the concept of meaning shifts. In actual fact, the
rhetorical model derives its existence from the actual use of langu...ge
in a specific socio-communicative situation. For language, without
doubt, is basically a means of communication. Communication involves,
among other things, a sociological situation in which it occurs. Any
message, however, could not be extricated from its relevant situational
context.
This point is further elaborated in the fourth chapter, the first
part of which is allocated to text analysis from the standpoint of the
modLl. The second part is devoted to comparison between source and
target texts with a view to assessing translation quality. The third
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