TITLE:
Discussion on Textual Equivalence—Mona Baker’s In Other Words: A Course Book on Translation
AUTHORS:
Jiaojiao Zhuang
KEYWORDS:
A Course Book on Translation, Mona Baker, Translation, Textual Equivalence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.8 No.11,
October
27,
2021
ABSTRACT: In Other Words: A Course Book on Translation aims to provide a basis for guiding translators. The abundant examples and detailed explanations make the book easy to be perceived. However, Baker comments that in Chinese pronouns are hardly used and once a participant is introduced, continuity of reference is signalled by omitting the following subjects of following clauses. By qualitative analysis, this paper finds that although Chinese has a tendency to use fewer pronouns than English, the cases it uses pronoun are not that rare.