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Publication details [#2346]
Ikome, Otto M. 1994. A bended proximation: comments on Tiffou. In Rajendra, Singh De, ed. La traduction vue de l'extérieur [Translation: a view from the outside]. Special issue of Meta. Journal des Traducteurs, Translators' Journal 39 (2): 338–341. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
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Target language
Person as a subject
Abstract
In this paper, Tiffou fully acknowledges the complexities involved in the translation process. Central to these is the difficulty (or, for Tiffou, the impossibility) of translating certain things. Presupposing 'equivalence', he points out that certain linguistic categories do not lend themselves to easy or exact translation. To tackle the issue of grammatical equivalence as a way of demonstrating the fundamental difficulties in a translation, Tiffou uses examples from morphosemantics, morphology, syntax, morphosyntax, word formation, cognition and semiotics. He sums up his demonstration by showing that translation requires lingua-cultural intercomprehension on what one might describe as full bi-cultural initiation. This paper contains a summary, comparison and comment on these, makes some suggestions and proposes some solutions.
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