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texts are identified before assessment of translation quality is
established.
The study is divided into four chapters, with an introduction, a
conclusion, an appendix, and a select bibliography. Chapter One deals
with the theory of translation, boiling its components down to three: a
philosophical component, a communicative component, and a semiotic
component. Translational equivalence, as a philosophical issue, is
also discussed.
Chapter two is a survey of existing approaches to translation: the
langauge-oriented approach, the cross-cultural approach, and the
interpretive approach. The theory of translation underlying each is
also reviewed. Particular emphasis is laid on the interpretive
approach and the translation, models emerging thereof. These models
are: text-typological model, the hermeneutic model, and the rhetorical
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model upon which translation quality is assessed.
Chapter Three reviews the method suggested for text analysis and
the multi-level correspondences between source and target texts. It
also elaborates on how the model is activated.
Chapter Four is devoted to comparative analysis of finalized,
representative texts in both source and target languages before
qualitative statements about translation are made. A conclusion
immediately follows. The thesis ends with an appendix, in which the
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