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    This document is an essay titled "The Concept 'Shift of Expression' in Translation Analysis" by Anton Popovic. It discusses how translation involves shifts in intellectual and aesthetic values between the original work and the translated work due to differences in languages, authors, and literary situations. These shifts occur as a result of the dual nature of a translated work, which contains elements of both the original language/style and the new target language. The essay explores how various translation methods can be defined by whether they involve shifts in semantic, structural, or other layers of the text compared to the original.

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    This document is an essay titled "The Concept 'Shift of Expression' in Translation Analysis" by Anton Popovic. It discusses how translation involves shifts in intellectual and aesthetic values between the original work and the translated work due to differences in languages, authors, and literary situations. These shifts occur as a result of the dual nature of a translated work, which contains elements of both the original language/style and the new target language. The essay explores how various translation methods can be defined by whether they involve shifts in semantic, structural, or other layers of the text compared to the original.

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    This document is an essay titled "The Concept 'Shift of Expression' in Translation Analysis" by Anton Popovic. It discusses how translation involves shifts in intellectual and aesthetic values between the original work and the translated work due to differences in languages, authors, and literary situations. These shifts occur as a result of the dual nature of a translated work, which contains elements of both the original language/style and the new target language. The essay explores how various translation methods can be defined by whether they involve shifts in semantic, structural, or other layers of the text compared to the original.

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    This document is an essay titled "The Concept 'Shift of Expression' in Translation Analysis" by Anton Popovic. It discusses how translation involves shifts in intellectual and aesthetic values between the original work and the translated work due to differences in languages, authors, and literary situations. These shifts occur as a result of the dual nature of a translated work, which contains elements of both the original language/style and the new target language. The essay explores how various translation methods can be defined by whether they involve shifts in semantic, structural, or other layers of the text compared to the original.

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    The Nature

    of Translation
    Essays on the Theory and Practice
    of Literary Translation

    Edited, by James S Holmes


    Associate Editors: Frans de Haan & Anton Popovic

    1970

    Mouton · T h e Hague · Paris

    Publishing House
    of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
    Bratislava
    The Concept "Shift of Expression" in Translation Analysis

    A N T O N POPOVIÖ

    The aim of a translation is to transfer certain intellectual and aesthetic


    values from one language to another. This transfer is not performed
    directly and is not without its difficulties. The losses incurred in the
    process are sometimes such as to shake our faith in the very possibility
    of translating a work of art. 1 Yet the act of translating may also produce
    the opposite result, that is, bring actual gain. This range of possibilities
    .provides a clear indication that translation by its very nature entails
    certain shifts of intellectual and aesthetic values. The existence of these
    shifts can be verified empirically.
    Everything that takes place in the course of a translation has the
    character of a process. There are various factors that instigate this
    process. What are they?
    Let us start with the first of them. The basic feature from which the
    problems of the translation performance spring is the dual character
    of the translated work:
    The Concept "Shift of Expression"
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    A translation is not a monistic composition, but an interpenetration and conglomerate


    of two structures. On the one hand there are the semantic content and the formal
    contour of the original, on the other hand the entire system of aesthetic features bound
    up with the language of the translation. 2

    A translation, in other words, involves an encounter of linguistic and


    literary norms and conventions, a confrontation of linguistic and literary
    systems. The changes that take place in a translation are determined
    by the differences between the two languages, the two authors, and the
    two literary situations involved. Taken together, these differences
    determine the major components of the translation's structure, the
    integrative principle of its development which we label "style". 3
    The differences in language are unavoidable and cannot be considered
    significant, as they are the result of disparity and asymmetry in the de-
    velopment of the two linguistic traditions. The differences between
    the author and the translator are governed by the differing social and
    literary situations, the conventional designation for which is the taste
    of the day.
    In practice these differences between the original and the translation
    can be reduced to shifts in the structural process. Each individual method
    of translation is determined by the presence or absence of shifts in the
    various layers of the translation. All that appears as new with respect
    to the original, or fails to appear where it might have been expected,
    may be interpreted as a shift.4 The fact that the process of translation
    involves shifts in the semantic properties of the text does not mean that
    the translator wishes to underemphasize the semantic appeal of the
    original. The very opposite is true. He strives to preserve the " n o r m "
    of the original. He resorts to shifts precisely because he is endeavouring
    to convey the semantic substance of the original in spite of the differences
    separating the system of the original from that of the translation, in
    spite of the differences between the two languages and between the

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