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Chapter 2 Peter Newmark Semantic and Communicative Translation Guided Reading Peter Newmark (1916) is an accomplished translation scholar as well as an experienced translator. He has translated a number of books and articles and published extaensively on translation. His publications on translation include Approaches to Translation (1981), About Translation(1983), Paragraphs on Translation 段 落翻译(1985), A Textbook of Translation 翻译教程(1988), and More Paragraphs on Translation(1993). In his work Approaches to Translation, Newmark proposes two types of translation: semantic translation 语 义 翻 译 and communicative translation 交 际 翻 译 . Semantic translation focuses primarily upon the semantic content of the source text whereas communicative translation focuses essentially upon the comprehension and response of receptors. This distinction results from his disapproval of Nidas assumption 假定，假设， 设 想 ； 假 装 ； 承 担 ， 担 任 that all translating is communicating, and the overriding 最主要的，最优先的 principle of any translation is to achieve equivalent effect. For Newmark, the success of equivalent effect is illusory, and that the conflict of loyalties, the gap between emphasis on source and target languages will always remain as the overriding problem in translation theory and practice(1981:38). To narrow the gap, Newmark 系统地阐述，确切地表达；规划，构想出 formulates his concepts of communicative translation and semantic translation, which in a sense 从某种意义上说 are similar to Nidas dynamic equivalent translation and formal equivalent translation. Newmarks admits communicative translation is a common method and could be used in many types of translation. Nevertheless, he justifies 证明……正当/有 理，为……辩护 the legitimacy 合法性，正当；合理性，妥当； 嫡出，正统 of semantic