• DR. BHARAT CHANDRA SAMAL

TRANSLATION AS AN ACT OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE: PROBLEMATICS OF EQUIVANCE Dr. Bharat Chandra Samal Asst. Professor of English BJB College, Bhubaneswar Odisha, India Email:bharatchandrasamal65@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper seeks to discover the significance of translation as an act of rewriting and the problems of equivalence that emerge while rendering syntactical ambiguities of a Source Language (SL) into a Target Language (TL). We know that translation as a process of conveying message across linguistic and cultural barriers is an eminently communicative activity. No denying the fact that translation plays a vital role not only in the communication of different people from different nations, but also in the development of a nation’s politics, culture and society. Translation performs a yeoman’s job in transferring the literary and cultural values to the world. In the past, scholars attached great importance to the source text, considering it as positive and authoritative. Translation, however, was regarded as derivative and servile. In the 1980s, the appearance of cultural turn was a satisfying change. Despite all its merits, it draws attention to the issues that are beyond equivalence and fidelity. A translation can very rarely render the original text word-for-word in another language and convey its meaning unchanged (e.g. Nida 1964, Catford 1978, Chesterman 2000, Shuping 2013). Structural ambiguities of a source language often pose intractable problems to translate their form, emotion, spirit and cultural ethos into a Target Language. While doing so, it makes the process difficult rather impossible. This study presents a few syntactical ambiguities of two Indian classical languages such as Odia and Sanskrit and the problems of equivalence encountered by the translators while rendering such syntactical ambiguities of the source languages in English to make them at times faithful and beautiful.

Key words: ambiguity, equivalence, Linguistic, Problematics, Translation, Ornamental, Culture

"TRANSLATION AS AN ACT OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE: PROBLEMATICS OF EQUIVALENCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.c148-c155, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108272.pdf

"TRANSLATION AS AN ACT OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE: PROBLEMATICS OF EQUIVALENCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppc148-c155, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108272.pdf