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Limits and Frustrations of Discourse Analysis in Traslation Theory
Anthony Pym
- Iss: 11, pp 227-240
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The authors define discourse as a set of constraints on semiosis, and then use this defmition to recognise translation as a possible index of intercultural discursive constraints, which is a more pertinent approach.Abstract:
The general attention to discourse analysis developed in the 1970s has found applications in translation theory in the 1980s and into the 1990s. However, a survey of the linguistic approaches concemed shows that many kinds of analysis are inappropriate to the study of translation quite simply because they cannot say if a source text and a target text can or should belong to the same discourse. That is, most theories cannot describe the limits of any particular discourse within or across different tongues. A more pertinent approach is to define discourse as a set of constraints on semiosis, and then use this defmition to recognise translation as a possible index of intercultural discursive constraints.read more
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