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language. Translations of medical, scientific, and technological
materials fall under this heading. The translator's sole
preoccupation is none other than getting the information across in the
second language. In aesthetic-poetic translation, the translator
takes into consideration the effect, emotion, and feelings of an
original language message, the aesthetic form used by the original
author, as well as any information item in the ressage. The
informative elements of the source message are not wholly disregarded;
the stress being primarily laid on the artistic form and the aesthetic
appeal of the message. All forms of creative writing fall into this
category. The third type is ethnographic translation in which the
cultural context of the source message is over-stressed. In
ethnographic translation emphasis is laid on the communicative
participants' actual use of words and phrases in their relevant socio-
cultural contexts. The translator is advised to be sensitive to and
knowledgeable in the cultures of both source and target languages.
Linguistic translation is concerned with "equivalent meanings of the
constituent morphemes of the second language and with grammatical
form." (Casagrande, 1954, p337)
Casagrande's typology comprehends nearly all translatable texts.
The choice of a particular type of translation lies exclusively with
the translator, and is conditioned by the specific layer of meaning he
wishes to bring into focus. Oveilaps are bound to occur.
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