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Publication details [#20555]

Jakobson, Roman. 2000. On linguistic aspects of translation. In Venuti, Lawrence and Mona Baker. The Translation Studies reader. London: Routledge. pp. 113–125.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | interlingual translation | intralingual translation | semiotics

Reprint of

Jakobson, Roman. 1959. On linguistic aspects of translation. In Brower, Reuben Arthur, ed. On translation (Harvard studies in comparative literature 23). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 144–151.

Abstract

All communication is translation. There are three types of translation: intralingual ("rewording"), interlingual ("translation proper"), and semiotic translation ("transmutation"). Language is far from being a neutral nomenclature, but everything can be said in any language (things get more complicated when form is an essential part of the message).

Source : BITRA / J. Franco