An Analysis of the Process of Translation

Abstract

This contribution entitled “An Analysis of the Process of Translation” is not just aiming at defining translation as a field of university studies but mainly at explaining the process of translation through the different works of outstanding theoreticians in this issue.

We attempt at showing how a translator/student manages to transfer a text from a source language to a target language with regard to the cultural disparities between both of them and according to organized steps.

Our analysis based on relevant approaches as well as on our own professional experience as a teacher of translation focuses on the fact that practically, the act of translation consists of a complex series of problem-solving and decision-making processes.

At the end we will realize that to translate we must be in a process and respect some steps whether or not we achieve a result.