From: Bart van der Veer <b.vanderveerha.be>
Subject: Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series
Full Title: Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series
Linguistic Field(s): None;Translation
Subject Language(s): Dutch; English; French; German, Standard; Italian; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2007
Looking for Meaning: Methodological issues in translation studies.
Call for papers
Sonia Vandepitte (Ed)
Translation is the transfer of a message: it is the travel of one meaning
or set of meanings from one point in place or time to another. Translation
studies (TS) relies so heavily on a concept of meaning, that one may claim
that there is no TS without any reference to meanings. However, different
approaches in TS refer to different types of meaning: some researchers are
looking for lexical patterns (including collocation and repetition) in
source texts and their translations, some studies concentrate on how the
text utterances function within their immediate contexts (e.g. Nord), while
others investigate the impact of the text as a whole on its audience or
even society (e.g. Venuti's remainder of the translation).
Some researchers explicitly talk about meaning as a cognitive concept and
say, for instance, that translators and interpreters construct or assemble
meaning (e.g. Setton). Others regard it as a textual characteristic. In the
latter view, texts themselves hold meanings, so translations can be
compared in terms of meanings with each other, with source texts or with a
comparable corpus. If a source text has 'The company became the major
manufacturer of their fine ladies' gloves,' and the back-translation of a
translation is 'The company became the major supplier of their fine
ladies,' it is possible to claim that the source text and the translation
differ slightly from one another semantically. Implicitly, however, such a
view, too, usually regards meaning as coming into its own when it is
related to a person: it could be the meaning intended by the source writer,
that construed or intended by the translator, or that construed by the
reader of either the source or target text.
While meaning analyses in translation studies may not procure the total
meaning of a text on their own, they do highlight different aspects of that
meaning in source and target texts and contribute to our understanding of
how translation comes about. The key issue contributors are asked to
address in this special issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia NS7 is the
specific methods they use to discuss meaning aspects: how do they study
meaning systematically when they aim to bring forward findings from which
translation principles can be generalized?
More specific questions, revealing the optimal fields of applicability of
the different methodological approaches, reflect the various stages of
empirical research: please consult our website
or contact Aline Remael (a.remaelha.be)
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