Interdependent Relationship Between Contrastive Analysis And Translation

Abstract

Contrastive studies play an important role in the field of language
teaching and translation. Since the former is beyond the study of this paper,
the present study focuses on the relationship between contrastive analysis
(henceforth CA) and translation, i.e., how CA can serve translation and
how translation can serve CA.
Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find the areas in which CA can
take benefit from translation and vice versa because this use is of a great
help for both fields.
The area whereby translation can make use of CA is the bilingual
grammars and bilingual dictionaries which can help translators to perform
the process of translation.
On the other hand, translation can serve CA by providing
contrastivists with the closest translation equivalences that meet their needs
in the two areas they are interested with, viz, comparison and
contrastiveness, i.e., arriving at similarities or constants and differences
between two or more languages respectively.