Scope and Fields of Translation and Importance of knowledge of context

As I have told in my earlier posts also, there are a number of fields where translators have their foot or where translation is necessarily needed.  These are:

1.       Literature

-          Fiction

-          Poetry

-          Articles

2.       National/International Relations

-          Political

-          Business

-          Science and Technology

-          Research

-          Education

3.       Finance

4.       Law

Now, we see that these fields cover almost every field of modern life.   It, thus, means that a translator must not only be -

(1)     well acquainted with the (i) vocabulary , (ii) grammer, and (iii) structure of the source language as well as the target language;

(2)    Use of words in particular contexts,

but also he must know the terminology used in various fields of both the languages so that he, through his translation, can convey exactly the same what has been said in the source language.

Since all the languages have a number of words which change their meaning according to the context, hence a translator must not have only a good vocabulary but also have knowledge of contexts in which these words can be used in different context.

In other words the knowledge of context plays a very important part for rendering a perfect translation.