3. OTHER IMPLICATIONS THE ABOVE RESEARCH FINDINGS SHOW THAT THE WORD...

5.3. Other implications

The above research findings show that the

word class shift from nouns in the original

The findings of the present study help to

Australian short stories to verbs in their

confirm previous research on Vietnamese

Vietnamese translations is not the translator”s

communicative preference of verbs to nouns. In

style, but it reflects a culturally specific

other words, for native speakers of Vietnamese,

linguistic feature of Vietnamese texts: verbs are

the verb sounds more natural than the noun. In

preferred to nouns in Vietnamese language, i.e,

addition, further research into the formality/

verbs sound more natural than nouns in most

informality of the situation expressed by nouns

cases. These findings also confirm previous

or verbs is needed.

comments on the Vietnamese preference of

Regarding the research methods, this study

verbs by Trần Ngọc Thêm (see [2: 165]). In

shows that DCTs, more specifically MDCTs,

these five translations, the translator has

can be used not only for pragmatics studies but

adapted the language norm of English source

also for translation evaluation. The naturalness

texts, i.e. the use of nouns, to the norm of the

of a translation text can be judged based on the

Vietnamese target language community, i.e. the

receptor”s responses to the translation.

use of verbs.