The Possible Fate of the Semiotics of Translation
The Possible Fate of the Semiotics of Translation

Summary/Abstract: The semiotics of translation is a relatively young interdisciplinary field whose dominant could lie either in translation studies or in semiotics. As a part of translation studies, the semiotics of translation examines different aspects of translatability, starting with the linguistic worldview and ending with the functioning of a translation text as a cultural text. For translation studies, the semiotic aspect of text analysis — the notion of semiotic coherence — is important. As a part of semiotics, the semiotics of translation is connected with the comparative analysis of sign systems, of functional connections between sign systems and with the study of mutual correlation inside the semiotics of translation. As a part of semiotics, the semiotics of translation has a place both in theoretical and applied semiotics.[...]

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