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Integration of form and content for communication through translation: With reference to pronouns in Chinese discourse

The paper deals with the relationship between form, content and communication in translation by way of implicit and explicit presentation of information. It argues that form and content should not be conceived of as two vying elements, one surviving in translating at the expense of the other, but as two components integrated to enable communication; and form, as the structured linguistic means to secure actual communication, is thus held accountable for translation. As the decision upon explicit or implicit presentation is based on the assumption of the extent of shared knowledge and on the purpose of imparting the new information to the reader, as well as facilitated and constrained by the grammatical apparatus of the language used, the whole functional complexity of translation in a communicative context can thus boil down to one primary issue - the matching between what has been left out, or taken in, in the existing source text and what ought to be left out, or taken in, for cultural, textual and/or linguistic considerations in an emerging target text. The point is illustrated in the use of pronouns in Chinese discourse for translation purposes.