Adequacy and Equivalency in Literary translation adequacy problems in translation

Translation mistakes can be differentiated as speech error and functional errors. Speech errors can be detected in the structure of the language and in the norm of the speech. They show the violations of the speech and verbal rules. Functional errors cover so-called deviations of the source text, influencing the sense of the unit. These deviations are divided into ‘distortions' and ‘discrepancies' depending upon the gravity of the mistake. Distortions are the mistakes in the text, which provide the wrong information of the source text in the target text. Some problems can appear if the meaning of the target text is not clear. Such deviations can be connected with the transliteration in the translation when some phenomenon of the source language is transferred into the target language without any additional information. For example, some historical persons of one country can be unknown in another country, the names of some shops, when translator does not provide extra information to the reader or doesn’t make a comment. Usually, descriptive translation helps to solve this difficulty.

• Translation mistakes can be differentiated as speech error and functional errors. Speech errors can be detected in the structure of the language and in the norm of the speech. They show the violations of the speech and verbal rules. Functional errors cover so-called deviations of the source text, influencing the sense of the unit. These deviations are divided into ‘distortions' and ‘discrepancies' depending upon the gravity of the mistake. Distortions are the mistakes in the text, which provide the wrong information of the source text in the target text. Some problems can appear if the meaning of the target text is not clear. Such deviations can be connected with the transliteration in the translation when some phenomenon of the source language is transferred into the target language without any additional information. For example, some historical persons of one country can be unknown in another country, the names of some shops, when translator does not provide extra information to the reader or doesn’t make a comment. Usually, descriptive translation helps to solve this difficulty.