An integrational view
of translation
Roy Harris’s categorization
of ‘Non-integrational theories’ of translation
1. Transference theories
– Message is in focus
2. Replicational theories
– Text is in focus
Transference theories
treat translation as a set of procedures for extracting a ‘message’ from a text
in language A and re-encoding it in language B. The ‘object’ of translation is the
message, not the text itself. Replicational theories treat translation as a set
of procedures for replicating (as far as possible) in language B (features of) a
text formulated in language A. The Object of translation is the text itself. – 316
“in human communication
(linguistic) signs are never invariants.” – 316
A modern Japanese
example
An English example,
remote in time
When language misleads
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