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Equivalence (Nida)

Eugene Nida distinguishes two types of equivalence:

dynamic equivalence,
formal equivalence.

The dynamic equivalence attempts to convey the thought expressed in a source text (at the expense of literalness, original word order, the source text’s grammatical voice, etc., if necessary), while the formal equivalence attempts to render the text word-for-word (at the expense of natural expression in the [...]

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Untranslatability (Popovič)

Also Popovič operates a bipartition in defining untranslatability, but he does not make a distinction between the linguistic and the cultural. He distinguishes:

a situation in which the linguistic elements of the original cannot be replaced adequately in structural, linear, functional or semantic terms in consequence of a lack of denotation or connotation, and
a situation where [...]

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