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The Contribution of Semiotics to Translation | ||
| Journal Of AL-Turath University College | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 41-57 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali K. Abbas | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The aim of this article is to explore avenues whereby semiotics is deployed as an aid to ameliorate translation quality assessment. The key question is whether semiotics and translation compete to be the starting point to furnish the way for the other to achieve the communicative act. It has become quite obvious that semiotics, the study of the sign system, aspires to inculcate the spirit of the practical use of signs in translation practice. Consequently semiotics can be considered as a portal through which translation strategies and methods operate properly for effective communication. The semantics and pragmatics of signs help form images of object representations in the world in people's minds. The images that the objects representations (interpretations) evoke in people's minds are not necessarily to be exactly the same. The variance of imagery is due to people's life experience and their background information. Semiotics in essence investigates how meaning is achieved through the sign system and ultimately fosters translation practice to help achieve its communicative act. Semiotics and translation are not mutually exclusive for that they share a symbiotic relationship, namely they scrutinize the same factors of influence on successful communication- the intents of sender, the intents of medium, the intents of receptor(s). Among pioneering scientists who laid down the principles of semiotics were de Saussure and C. Peirce. They studied language as a system of signs with interrelated relationships to be the source of inspiration for other sciences. | ||
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