Stylistic problems in direct translation

Direct translation, also known as literal translation, involves rendering the source text into the target language on a word-for-word or phrase-for-phrase basis without accounting for idiomatic, contextual, or cultural variations. While this method may serve certain technical or pedagogical purposes, it frequently produces stylistically awkward, semantically distorted, or pragmatically inappropriate target texts. This article examines the principal stylistic problems arising from direct translations, including issues of register inconsistency, syntactic rigidity, idiomatic interference, collocational infelicity, and rhetorical mismatch.

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