‘Intersemiotic translating’
Time for a rethink?
Should transpositions between language and other sign systems be considered a kind of translation? The answer
could be yes if the comparison is made to interlingual translating that features a high degree of variance. Here, however, the
question will be whether there are any kinds of intersemiotic transposition that feature a high degree of
invariance. Four criteria are suggested for defining invariance-oriented translation, and a variety of possible
instances of invariant intersemiotic translation are considered, with special mention of transpositions to and from music.
Article outline
- Defining criteria for ‘translating’
- Intersemiotic transposition
- Trivial examples of intersemiotic invariance
- Back-translatability
- Regular correspondences
- Freestandingness
- FAFSiness (few additions, few subtractions)
- Visual/linguistic transposition: The wrong place to look for translating
- Linguistic/musical transposition: The right place to look?
- Further investigation
- Which criteria?
- Coda – Jakobson dixit
- Notes
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