Translation after Wittgenstein

Wilson, Philip K.

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“…Reading the whole text (source text) at the beginning of the translation process is intended to make the translator get the general theme of what is discussed in the text. It is stated that nobody can translate a text that he or she has not read (Wilson, 2016). Before in a study, (Macizo & Bajo, 2004) report that when participants of their study were reading in the source language and they received instruction for later translation, some properties of the target language (e.g.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Aloud Protocol for Smart Translation

Omolu

Mappewali

2020

PJEE

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A language is an important tool in communication. To produce a smooth relationship between countries that have different languages, the English language functions as Lingua Franca. To understand the information in English, a good understanding is needed. Being able to translate English texts is one of the basic forms of understanding itself. Unfortunately, numerous English language learners; from junior high schools to university levels, are still experiencing problems in this translation. This study aims to uncover the strategies of students in translating English texts into Indonesian by using the Thinking Aloud Protocol method. The subjects of this study were students in semester V (five) who had gone through Structure I to Structure IV subjects. This research was conducted in the scope of the University of Muhammadiyah Palu. From this research, the most widely used translation strategy is done by students as well as the prototype of the translation process to produce good translations

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Aloud Protocol for Smart Translation

Omolu

Mappewali

2020

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“…For example, Lee and Chan (2018) have adopted a functionalist stance to translate several Chinese concrete poems into English. However, the approach would be attacked for the same reasons as Nida's functional equivalence: the equivalent effect is subjective (Munday, 2016), and the desired effect is not always achieved (Chesterman, 2016;Wilson, 2016). It is subject to dispute how a translator grasps an effect and reproduces it.…”

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Wittgenstein’s Conception of Translation in His Later Philosophy of Language as an Approach to Cummings’s Untranslatable Concrete Poetry

Fang

2024

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E.E. Cummings’s concrete poetry raises the canonical problem of poetic untranslatability. It is commonly accepted that a poem is constituted as a unity of form and content, and any change in the form of a poem results in the loss of the poetic value and, eventually, translation failure. Two basic approaches have been proposed regarding the untranslatability of Cummings’s concrete poetry: mimicry and equivalence of effect. However, the former is impractical, and the latter is an indirect one. This paper proposes employing Wittgenstein’s conception of translation in his later philosophy of language to solve the question of the untranslatability of Cummings’s concrete poetry. By analysing three of Cummings’s concrete poems ‘r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r’, ‘mOOn Over tOwns mOOn’, and ‘Buffalo Bill’s’, this study suggests that poetry is translatable in the sense that the same language-game in the source text (ST) can be played in the target text (TT) by reconstruction or invention.

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“…Accounting studies have been following the philosophy of Wittgenstein and Saussure to understand accounting language and accounting concepts. Wittgenstein views language dynamically as a language game, as a way people use and combine words in a particular context (Wilson, 2015). Following the work of Wittgenstein, accounting scholars focused on accounting discourses situated within specific contexts, for instance, accounting reports (Macintosh, 2009), academic and practitioner journals (Nørreklit and Scapens, 2014).…”

Section: Accounting Research: Philosophy and Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, the English language belongs to a family of Romance languages while Russian belongs to the Indo-European language family. These languages represent the world differently, for instance, there are differences in grammar, noun gender use (Wilson, 2015), the use of metaphors (Mirzoyeva, 2014) and vocabularies. For instance, the Russian language discriminates between light (голубой) and dark blue (синий) as opposed to the English language.…”

Section: Problematizing the Natural Equivalence Paradigm In Accountingmentioning

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Importing a management accounting concept into the Russian language: a case of resistance from Russian academics

Golyagina

2021

JAEE

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PurposeDrawing on the semantic field theory, the paper aims to uncover the challenges of importing and translating a management accounting concept into the Russian language and the semantic nature of resistance towards the imported management accounting concept.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on the extensive literature review of the histories of accounting in the Soviet Union and the United States in the first part of the twentieth century and 17 interviews conducted with the Russian accounting academics.FindingsWe demonstrate the case of resistance in adopting the imported Anglo-Saxon management accounting concept. We also discuss historical underpinning and origins of this resistance in light of semantic field theory.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper calls for more research in the non-Anglo-Saxon contexts problematizing conventional assumptions and beliefs about objectivity and universality of accounting language.Practical implicationsThe study demonstrates the importance of understanding historical and cross-cultural developments of accounting language for accounting educators and practitioners. Critical awareness of the differences in semantic fields of accounting can help accounting researchers and educators to develop contextualized research projects and context-relevant teaching practices.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the literature on translations of accounting concepts by demonstrating that accounting concepts are not understood in isolation, instead, they are interpreted in relation to each other. The present study demonstrates that the relationship between the management accounting concept (the signifier) and its meanings (signifieds) is fluid, culturally and historically contingent. To understand this relationship, we should attend to the historical development of semantic fields and associative relations between concepts.

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Translation after Wittgenstein

Abstract: In this thesis, I examine how a reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein can be of use to the reflective practitioner of literary translation.

Cited by 7 publications

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Thinking Aloud Protocol for Smart Translation

Thinking Aloud Protocol for Smart Translation

Wittgenstein’s Conception of Translation in His Later Philosophy of Language as an Approach to Cummings’s Untranslatable Concrete Poetry

Importing a management accounting concept into the Russian language: a case of resistance from Russian academics

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