functional equivalence

English

Noun

functional equivalence (uncountable)

1. (translation studies) Synonym of dynamic equivalence
   • 2011, David Bellos, chapter 15, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:

     Nida made a distinction between two kinds of equivalence in translation: formal equivalence, where the order of the words and their standard or common meanings correspond closely to the syntax and vocabulary of the source; and dynamic equivalence (later renamed functional equivalence), where the translator substitutes for source-text expressions other ways of saying things with roughly the same force in the culture of the receiving society.