Exploring a conceptual space for studying translation and development

Bibliographic Data

ID23239017
AuthorsKobus Marais (0000-0002-6051-4957, Linguistics and Language Practice, University of the Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume31
Issue4
Pages403-414
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouthern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1607-3614 • E-ISSN: 1727-9461
PublisherNational Inquiry Services Center (NISC) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2989/16073614.2013.864439
OpenAlexW2037725260
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

This article argues that the field of translation studies would benefit if scholars expanded their linguistic, comparative literature and individualist biases to include the social, in particular the development of the social. It does so by founding its argument in complexity thinking, arguing for an approach that is hierarchical, non-linear, paradoxical, and non-equilibrium in its assumptions. The article links with arguments about the semiotic substructure to the emergence of social reality, arguing that it provides translation studies scholars the theoretical keys to theorising their work in terms of development studies. Development, as one of many cases of intersystemic interaction, thus falls within the ambit of translation studies. The article closes with an agenda for future research in this regard.

Argument (complex analysis) · Development (topology) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Individualism · Linguistics · Methodological individualism · Political science · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Translation (biology) · Translation studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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