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necessary to achieve an approximation of the SL text into the target
langauge.
According to the rhetorical model, texts are classified into three
categories: (1) literary texts in which language is used as a secondary
modelling system; the frame of reference being the text-supplied world;
(2) non-literary texts in which language is used as a primary modelling
system; the frame of reference being the actual world; and (3) hybrid
texts which border between literary and non-literary texts.
Literary texts have been approached from different analytical,
interpretational and critical perspectives. Structuralists, for
instance, look at the text from within, divesting it of its inherent
communicative character; whereas subjectivists approach the text from
without, considering it an extraneous linguistic object.
Hermeneuticists and reading theorists regard the text as a bastard
child whom the reader, and the reader alone, is legitimately entitled
to father. They claim that the text is a non-existent linguistic
entity unless and until the reader, who is allowed full liberty to
exercise his interpretive, intuitive, and creative faculties, has
reconstructed and created it anew. Non-literary and hybrid texts have
also been subjected to rigorous mechanical analyses which under-rate
their stylistic appeal. The rhetorical model aims at an integrated
text comprehension as a preliminary step towards text-analysis and,
eventually, text translation from a text-linguistic standpoint.
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