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The translator's exhaustive and painstaking search for
formal lexical correspondents in the receptor langauge to match
lexical items in the source language is not an end in itself.
Formal lexical correspondence is a means to an end; the end being
the closest semantic equivalence between the source and target
message. Such an equivalence would not only be possible by merely
transposing formal lexical correspondents from and across the
source and receptor languages. A dynamization of the formal
features has been proven to be indispensable. Dynamic
correspondence, particularly on the lexical level, presupposes that
the original recipients of the message brought to the decoding
process a good deal • of background information unknowable to and
unpredictable by decoders in a second langauge, especially if the
two languages share extremely wide cultural gaps. The stylistic
luster and sparkle of the original message should be compensated
for, rather than lost or dimmed, in the target text. This luster
is sustainable through calculated redundancy on both structural and
stylistic levels to protect the dynamic aspect of translating. By
'calculated' redundancy I mean non-extravagant and stylistically
acceptable redundancy, otherwise a translation would disperse and
misrepresent the meaning content of the original.
IDENTIFICATION OF MEANING CATEGORIES
Our model, which will serve as a yardstick with which translation
quality will be assessed, is essentially a rhetorical one. As we have
iterated earlier, texts and/or discourses are made up of strings of
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