Translation and Linguistic Relativism. An Epistemological Approach
Translation and Linguistic Relativism. An Epistemological Approach

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide a reconstruction of the philosophical discussions generated by the issue of translation from one language to another. Modern philosophers have already observed that language influences the way we think. The hermeneutic tradition was followed by the establishment of a linguistic research tradition whose first doctrinal thesis was to notice the relativistic consequence of the plurality of languages. Later, epistemological relativism also underwent a linguistic turn. Exploratory concepts such as radical translation, indeterminacy of translation, paradigm and incommensurability, conceptual scheme, translation and interpretation were discussed.

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