Roman Jakobson’s Triadic Division of Translation Revisited

Jia, Hongwei

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“…Roman Jakobson was a Russian-American linguist and literary theorist, who back in 1959, in his essay On Linguistic Aspects of Translation, proposed a tripartite division of translation (Jia, 2017). For Jakobson, understanding a word is a linguistic phenomenon and when trying to understand and translate a word, three kinds of translation might take place, namely intralingual translation or rewording, interlingual translation or translation proper, and intersemiotic translation or transmutation (Jakobson, 1959).…”

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On the Legacy of Translation Theories from the 1950s and 1960s: A Critical Review

Morales¹,

Chaves²

2021

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Translation theories which bloomed in the 1950s and the 1960s have inspired numerous debates on multiple contexts of theory and praxis. With the increase of specialized journals and publishing houses of the past few decades, the professional literature has gone in so many directions –with supporters and opponents alike— that it is often hard to strike a balanced view of the contributions of these theories to current translation studies. In an attempt to fill this gap, this theoretical review article examines a corpus of scholarly publications which have taken place mainly between 2002 and 2018 about the translation theories proposed in the 1950s and 1960s. To such end, a body of works focusing on the seminal works of Vinay and Darbelnet (1958), Jakobson (1959), Nida (1964a), Catford (1965), and Nida and Taber (1969) are reviewed to infer their degree of applicability to current translation-based discussions and praxis. Findings suggest that the authors exerting the greatest influence on contemporary discussions of translation studies seem to be Vinay and Darbelnet, followed by Nida and Taber, and then by Jakobson and Catford. They also indicate that the degree to which the translation theories under question are obsolete (or not) is hard to determine with accuracy. It remains unclear whether the bulk of publications which these theoreticians inspire is the product of acceptance or rejection of the assumptions contained in their postulates.

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On the Legacy of Translation Theories from the 1950s and 1960s: A Critical Review

Morales¹,

Chaves²

2021

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“…C'est donc un outil heuristique qui permet de décrire « la zone de contact » [33] au sens d'un espace d'interaction sociale. À notre avis toutefois, ces notions s'inscrivent davantage dans une sémiotique de la traduction [24] que dans la traduction dans son acception classique.…”

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“…Pourtant, l'espace interstitiel implique à titre de condition préalable au moins une certaine perméabilité, si ce n'est l'ouverture de la frontière entre les espaces symboliques. Pour appréhender cette nécessaire ouverture, on peut recourir à la notion de clôture opératoire 24 L'ouverture de la clôture opératoire entre les univers sémantiques a pour effet la création de l'espace interstitiel dans lequel ont lieu les processus de la transdifférence permettant la constitution du sens dans l'intégration des sémantiques distinctes en jeu. Cependant, l'ouverture de la clôture opératoire entre les espaces symboliques ne se produit pas spontanément.…”

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“…En effet, à partir d'une définition large du signe et de la distinction entre signes tangibles et intangibles [24, p. 37], le sens du terme « traduction » peut être élargi jusqu'à recouvrir les transformations sémiotiques entre les différents types de signes [24, p. 33] au sein d'une ou plusieurs sémiosphères 2 . Le terme de traduction recèle ainsi un fort potentiel 1 Sur la critique de la triade jakobsonienne par Eco, Gorlée et Toury, voir Jia [24]. 2 Le concept de « sémiosphère » a été introduit par Lotman, Yuri, M. [27].…”

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“…(Notre traduction du passage original « (…) a space or medium carrying the signs of a give culture and the place in which semiotic activities or transformations occur' », cf. Jia [24].…”

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La notion de tiers-espace et la traduction juridique : quelle articulation ?

Flöter-Durr

Nowak-Korcz

2020

Int J Semiot Law

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In recent years, we have noticed in many research areas a growing interest in the translation paradigm. In this article we discuss the theory of “cultural translation”, developed by Homi Bhabha in the context of postcolonial studies, and his concept of “Third Space” (2007). This theory aims to describe the different processes at play in the creation of identity within a space in which several cultures coexist. According to Bhabha, “the Third Space, though unrepresentable in itself, constitutes the discursive conditions of enunciation that ensure that the meaning and symbols of culture have no primordial unity or fixity; even the same signs can be appropriated, translated, rehistorised and read anew”. In this article, we aim to examine to what extent this theory can be applied to translation, especially to legal translation. The concepts of “Third Space” and hybridity developed by Bhabha undoubtedly have a certain appeal for the translator. However, from the methodological point of view other approaches seem to allow for a better understanding of the translation aspects raised by Bhabha in his theory. We therefore provide an interesting analysis of the “Third Space” based on the concept of interval by Cassin (Éloge de la traduction. Compliquer l’universel, Fayard, Paris, 2016), which is defined as a complex zone of interactions and interferences. This analysis is completed by examining the concept of frontiers by Moréteau (Revue internationale de droit comparé 4(61):695–713, 2009. DOI: 10.3406/ridc.2009.19911) which is implicitly present in the concept of interval. In order to analyse the concept of hybridity, the methodological framework of transdifference developed by Srubar (Kultur und Semantik, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2009) can also be used.

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2023

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Roman Jakobson’s Triadic Division of Translation Revisited

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

On the Legacy of Translation Theories from the 1950s and 1960s: A Critical Review

On the Legacy of Translation Theories from the 1950s and 1960s: A Critical Review

La notion de tiers-espace et la traduction juridique : quelle articulation ?

What Is Intersemiotic Legal Translation?

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