The original text may deal ……….. ………….any subject from general philosophical principles or postulates to minute technicalities in some obscure field of human endeavour.

Translation is a ………….. of actions performed by the translator while rendering the source text into another language.

Literary translation deals with literary texts, i.e., works of fiction or poetry whose main function is to make an ………………………… or aesthetic impression upon the reader.

The transformational model postulates that in any two languages there is a number of nuclear structures which are fully ……………………………………… each other.

It is ……………………. that the translation has the same meaning as the original text.

Translation shifts ………………….. both at the lower level of language, i.e. the lexicogrammar, and at the higher thematic level of text.

The …………………. of the translation should follow that of the original text.

Literary translations may be subdivided in the same way, as each genre calls for a specific arrangement and ………………………………………… specific artistic means to impress the reader.