| Author(s) | Atef Faleh Youssef |
| Affiliation | Assistant Professor,Department of European Languages and Translation, College of Languages and Translation" King Saud Univer.fity, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | A Spectrum of Different Translation Options |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Languages & Translation. Volume 11, No 1. (1999/1419) |
| Abstract | Quine's position on translation facts and values has contributed new approaches to the philosophical concept of translatability. In defense ofQuine's position, this research presents a spectrum of different opinions expressed on the logic of translatability and on the philosophical contentions of translation in genera!. It asserts that the reason "translation" has not been determined is because people have independently many different patterns of propositional attitudes. Each pattern would show up in different complex systems of verbal dispositions. It concludes with the approach that translation is a matter of a whole scheme meeting a complex totality of conditions. Because it is always possible to produce incompatible construals oflogical connectives, a specification of the actual constraints on translation shall continue to be controversial. A correct translation of a single sentence is only relative to some envisioned general scheme of translation. |
