ABSTRACT
Function refers to the factors that make a target text work in the intended way in the target situation. Loyalty refers to the interpersonal relationship between the translator, the source-text sender, the target-text addressees, and the initiator. The function-plus-loyalty model is also an answer to those critics who argue that the functional approach leaves translators free to do whatever they like with any source text, or worse, what their clients like. Loyalty limits the range of justifiable target-text functions for one particular source text and raises the need for a negotiation of the translation assignment between translators and their clients. The translator should have argued this point with the initiator or perhaps have refused to produce the translation on ethical grounds. In the general model, loyalty would be an empty slot that, in a particular translation task, is filled by the demands of the specific translation concepts of the cultures in question.
