On Linguistic Aspects of Translation

Bibliographic Data

ID20086085
AuthorsRoman Jakobson (corresponding author)
Year1959
Pages232-239
Publication date1959-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOn Translation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHarvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4159/harvard.9780674731615.c18
OpenAlexW2492298132
ISBN9780674731615
LanguageEN
Citations received507
References cited1

Roman Jakobson’s 1959 essay offers a semiotic reflection on translatability. He conceives of meaning, not as a reference to reality, but as a relation to a potentially endless chain of signs. He describes translation as a process of recoding which “involves two equivalent messages in two different codes,” and he distinguishes between three different kinds of translation: “intralingual,” “interlingual,” and “intersemiotic.” He is mindful of the differences among cultural discourses, especially poetry, where “grammatical categories carry a high semantic import” and which therefore requires translation that is a “creative transposition” into a different system of signs

Biology · Linguistics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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