The superstructure analysis was performed with the help of Hoey’s (2001) Problem–Solution Model (cf. Section 2.5). The raw data obtained from the analysis of the two source language and the eight target language texts are provided in Appendix 4. The functional parts of situation, problem, response, negative evaluation and positive result are marked in all ten texts. For the sake of clarity, responses and the corresponding evaluations are numbered with the same indices.

 

 

The translators, in the majority of the cases, kept the sentence boundaries of the source texts in their translations: the 28-sentence-long article Kompenzáció became 27–33-sentences long in translation, whereas the 18-sentence-long article Másnap became 17–19-sentences long in translation. This, however, does not affect the superstructure, since the functional parts of the source texts are retained in all eight target texts in the respective equivalent sentences. Thus, it can be concluded that functionally equivalent target texts have been produced in slightly different sentence combinations. This suggests that when translating argumentative newspaper articles, translators retain the functions of each superstructure component in the texts. Furthermore, it is interesting to note that both source language articles are made up of three cycles of the response-evaluation sequence (cf. Appendices 4 and 5), which are consistently retained in the eight target texts.