From Intersemiotic Translation to Intersemiotic Aspects of Translation

Abstract

The 1959 paper "On Linguistic Aspects of Translation" (1959Translation" ( /2000, in which Roman Jakobson proposed a division into intralingual, interlingual and intersemiotic translation, proved seminal for the development of the study of translation and for bringing into it a semiotic perspective. However, in the Introduction to the 1998 Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Mona Baker noticed that surprisingly little investigation had been conducted on the nature of intersemiotic translation, and that Jakobson's triadic division only "alert[s] us to the possibility of such things as intersemiotic and intralingual translation, but we do not make any genuine use of such classifications in our research" (1998: xvii). Later, Teresa Tomaszkiewicz restated the scarcity of studies of the nature of transmutation, despite the developments in the theorizing of new media and the new forms of translation connected to them (2006: 65-66).In recent years, among other enquiries into the subject, a comprehensive semiotic classification of translation was proposed by Henrik Gottlieb (2007). Nonetheless, terminological inconsistencies in the discipline are perceptible, which, in turn, can lead to misunderstandings and add to the difficulties in the research. For instance, Tomaszkiewicz cites an example of an intralingual translation being called intersemiotic (2006: 68), while Chiara Moriconi, when writing about the same work being rendered into a different language and into a painting, applies

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