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to touch the chord of human sensibility in order to be able to get his
message across to his audience. Again, the mutual interplay of
stylistic and rhetorical devices helps to heighten the moral effect of
a liturgical discourse.
A legal discourse, on the other hand, employs a variety of legal
terminology. Like political and liturgical discourses, it draws upon
stylistic and rhetorical mechanisms to activate the argument in favour
or against the case in question. Political, legal and/or exegetical
discourses share one specific characteristic, that is, priority is
given to content rather than form.
Katharina Reiss (1976, pp12-21) makes her division of texts on the
basis of the source text, assuming that the target text will be
closely related or nearly identical to the source text. She claims
that all texts are intended to inform, express, or persuade. An
informative texts (eg. a text-book or an instructions booklet)
instructs. An expressive text (eg. billes-lettres or creative
writing) affects. An operative text (a political speech or an
advertisement) persuades.
Casagrande (1954), in his analysis of the four 'ends' of
translation, introduces four different types: pragmatic, aesthetic-
poetic, ethnographic, and linguistic. Pragmatic translation is
concerned with the translation of the source message with an interest
in accuracy of the information meant to be conveyed in the target
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