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Chapter 6---the unit of translation and discourse analysis073010234AnaDefinition of translation unit: Many translation theorists defined the unit of translation in their own ways. For instance, Vinay and Darbelnet define the unit of translation as “the smallest segment of an utterance whose cohesion of signs is such that they must not be separately translated”. In other words, the translation unit is the minimal stretch of language that has to be translated together, as one unit. According to Peter Newmark:the argument about the length of the UT, which has been put succinctly by W. Haas, “as short as is possible, as long as is necessary”, is a concrete reflection of the age-old conflict between free and literal translation, the freer the translation, the longer the UT; the more literal the translation, the shorter the UT, the closer to the word, or, in poetry, even to the morpheme. Free translation has always favored the sentence; literal translation the word. Now, since the rise of text linguistics, free translation has moved from the sentence to the whole text.Discourse analysis Discourse analysis can be defined as the analysis of texts beyond and above the sentence – the attempt to find linguistic regularities in discourse.Its main concepts are cohesion (the features that bind sentences to each other grammatically and lexically) and coherence (the notional and logical unity of a text).The Coherence of a Discourse(连贯):Consider first its genre.Next, consider the structure of the text. Notionally, this may consist of: a thesis, an antithesis, and a synthesis; an introduction, an entry into the subject, aspects and examples, a conclusion; etc.Coherence means to make clear to the reader the relationship of sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph.There are several ways to do this. Coherence can be achieved by putting the parts in a sequence that is meaningful and relevant (logical sequence, chronological order or order of importance); obtained by using transiti