Lingua-stylistic and lingua-poetic analysis as the important aspects of translating literary text

Translation, most intuitively, is about conveying in another language what the translator considers to be the essential meaning of the text. But what constitutes this ‘essential meaning’ is not a simple matter. For many everyday functional texts, such as a set of instructions for setting up a piece of equipment or a weather report, this unproblematically is concerned with the purely referential meaning. Translate this referential meaning adequately, and the translated text performs the same function as the original text. For a good number of text types, however, meaning beyond the referential may be considered ‘essential’.