Intralingual translation

Karen Korning Zethsen
Aarhus University
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The practice of rewriting a text, of translating it with another purpose or for another audience within the same language, has presumably existed since time immemorial. The term “intralingual translation”, however, is inextricably linked to Roman Jakobson and his tripartite division of translation. Jakobson builds on Peirce’s theory of signs and meaning and postulates that “the meaning of any linguistic sign is its translation into some further, alternative sign” (Jakobson 2012: 114). The implication is that translation is a component in all language transactions and Jakobson divides these transactions into three kinds of translation or “ways of interpreting a verbal sign”:

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Further essential reading

Berk Albachten, Özlem
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