On Defining Translation

• Autores: Mariano García-Landa
• Localización: Meta: Journal des traducteurs = translators' journal, ISSN 0026-0452, Vol. 51, Nº. 3, 2006, págs. 435-444
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In Volume 50, no 4, December 2005, Maria Tymoczko traces some "Trajectories of Research in Translation Studies" and the first trajectory consisting in the difficulties even impossibility of defining translation. I try to show here that it is perfectly possible to define translation if you look at it, not from the viewpoint of "Translations Studies" aka Traductologie, but from the viewpoint of philosophy.

    
    
    Plan de l'article
    
    We can get nearer to the reality of language and translation
    What is meaning?
    Are we talking of meaning of words and sentences?
    The best solution to the concept of meaning
    Comrade Pavlov
    Psycholinguistics
    It is not so easy as that
    Definition of Translation