Comparative Stylistics and Translation Theory

Translation theory and comparative stylistics are two philological disciplines which have a single methodological basis, the comparison of linguistic and literary material at the contextual level. This common foundation unquestionably determines the relative similarity of the two disciplines, but it does not make them completely identical, since they differ both as to the materials they study and as to the nature of the problems addressed. Therefore criticism directed at the founders of the French school of comparative stylistics for not distinguishing these two young branches of philology, for, on the contrary, placing them on the same footing and virtually identifying them must be considered completely justified [1, p. 40; 2].