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'closest', which binds the two orientations together on the basis of
the highest degree of approximation". Naturalness of receptor message
could be sustained if all traces of 'foreignness' were eliminated.
Likewise, socio-cultural discrepancies, which are traceable in any two
cultures, can offer less difficulty than might be imagined if footnoted
or annotated. Footnoting is employed to fill or account for any
cultural gaps that might exist between the source and the receptor
texts.
Though formal equivalence translation suffers from a serious
deficiency, ie. the effect on the reader is unnatural and burdensome
because the impact of the original has been lost in favour of formal
elements, the receptor reader is completely at home with the dynamic
equivalence translation because the meaning of the source message is
adequately expressed in a stylistically appealing manner, with the
almost inevitable consequence that he reacts to the receptor message
in much the same manner as the source reader did to the source
message.
3. THE INTERPRETIVE APPROACH
Not unlike the language-oriented and/or the cross-cultural
approach, the interpretive approach stresses the pragmatic aspect of
language to the extent that interpretation becomes almost synonymous
with innovation. More concerned with the pragmatic than with the
linguistic or cultural aspect of language, the interpretive approach
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