Some thoughts on translation as representation
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This article explores the function of translation as representation.
Drawing on Peirce’s semiotics, it argues in favour of translation
acting as an interpreting thought, an interpretant that determines
the relations between the sign and its object. It then
goes into the causal, iconic aspect of these relations and attempts
to illustrate the workings of diagrammatic iconicity, especially
within the cognitive paradigm, and the way it affects translation
processes. Focussing on the literary and, more specifically,
the poetic genre, without, however, postulating a literary-nonliterary
genre dichotomy, it gives examples of courses of
action in line with the nature of translation supported in the
theory.
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