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is interpretable form its language, or a whole greater than the sum of
its parts. The linguistic-stylistic analysis of the text is considered
to be the first and necessary step to a successful reading and
interpretation, ie. translation. The aim of the linguistic-stylistic
analysis of the text, and its subsequent translation, is to uncover,
understand, interpret, reconstruct, and finally recreate the SL message
in the target language. This approach is completely in line with
Halliday's view of translation as a 'process' and a 'product'.
Therefore, an understanding of the text should entail, as Yishal Tobin
(1984, p114) suggests:
"(1) a linguistic analysis of (at least part) the systematic
language phenomena found in the text.
(2) a stylistic analysis of the text, ie. an understanding
and interpretation of how these systematic and language-
specific phenomena contribute to the particular message of the
text".
"Once (1) and (2) are .established", he goes on, "the process of
literary translation may subsequently be viewed as (3) a recreation of
the text and its message by employing the language-specific system of
the langauge of the translation to create a new text within the unique
language-specific system of the language of translation".
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