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To browse Academia. Language is commonly thought of as that which communicates meaning, with the particular associations between sounds, words and their meanings distinguishing given languages from each other. Translation is thus required for us to communicate meaning across languages.
In a sense, the possibility of translation depends on this very function - the identification of the correspondence between words and expressions of different languages such that they have the same meaning. In this essay, I explore the complexities associated with the possibility of translation.
By giving an initial account of translation, I assess the conditions under which translation could be possible. Based on a referential theory of meaning, I argue that while translation may be possible under these conditions, the lingering subjective element of meaning, that is, the need to refer to conceptions, renders certain types of translation inconsistent with each other.
Nida, par ex. ABSTRACT This paper critically surveys the different approaches to the un translatability of texts, giving special attention to the theories generated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses the views of scholars who adopted a monadist stance such as Edward Sapir and those who chose a universalist interpretation Eugene A.
