LEVELS OF EQUIVALENCE

Abstract

The term "equivalence" has a complicated history. It once meant that the sum of
the meanings of the words of the source text corresponds to the sum of the meanings
of the words of the translated text. In modern translation theory, it means that the
translated text corresponds to the original text. Equivalence It has an objective
linguistic basis and is therefore sometimes called linguistic equivalence in order to limit
the possible interpretations of the term associated with a literary approach to
translation.