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distance such as 'close to, long way off, a day's trip... etc'; and
event words of motion, eg. 'went, come, remove, shoved, cut down
• • • etc.' Temporal relationships are marked by temporal
conjunctions, eg. 'when, after, while, next morning, all day long
. etc'; relative tenses, eg. 'future perfect, past perfect';
sequence of tense; and historical order of events. Logical
relationships are marked by adverb conjunctions such as 'moreover,
therefore, nevertheless, consequently, accordingly... etc';
conjunctions indicating conditionality, dependency, or causality
such as 'if', 'although', and 'because' and lexical units
indicating logical relationships, eg. 'argued that', 'concluded
that', 'by inference',
A poetic discourse is the most highly structured of all
discourses. Its unique characteristic lies in its multi-layered
parallelism in sound, morphological and syntactic patterns, lexical
choices, and semantic structures. Sound parallelism implies
devices such as alliteration, rhyme, assonance, rhythm, and
intonational contours. It is actually this specific trait which
requires a poet to translate a piece of poetry in another langauge.
C. LEXICAL CORRESPONDENCE
Languages differ considerably with regard to their lexes.
Lexicographers have taken up the responsibility of setting lexicons
to keep records of all lexical items in living languages. Lexical
correspondence is a serious challenge for all translators because
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