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The interdisciplinary relationship between translation and interpreting studies and linguistics has manifested to different degrees and in significantly different ways over the period of analysis covered in this contribution (roughly the last 60 years). In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars began to theorise translation as an autonomous activity, and linguistics was considered a natural source of conceptual material. Linguistics provided the means of describing and comparing language systems, and the relationship between these systems was viewed as the primary constraint on the derivation of an equivalent target text from a source text. In pedagogical applications, the means of dealing with discrepancies between language systems were described as translation strategies or procedures. The main emphasis during this period was on translational relationships, whether between language systems or texts. During this period, methodological developments are few; there is a reliance on anecdotal evidence and an unresolved tension between prescription and description. As functionalist approaches to language and translation gained ground from the mid-1970s and 1980s, the emphasis shifted from translational relationships to translations in their contexts, and the relationship between translation and interpreting studies and linguistics became more complex. In some work, linguistics remained an important source of theoretical and empirical inspiration, as functionalist theories and corpus-based methods gained ground. The continued evolution of corpus-linguistic methods to study various aspects of translation as embedded in particular contexts constitutes a major methodological advance in the discipline. At the same time, scholars within Descriptive Translation Studies, who shared functionalist assumptions, were less concerned with specific linguistic theories and more with exploring the social structures, relationships and processes in which translated texts were created and used. In more recent developments, the relationship between translations and people (translators or readers) has come to the fore as cognitive linguistic and psycholinguistic theories are adopted, bringing with them a range of increasingly sophisticated multimethod approaches, often combining corpus-linguistic and experimental methods, alongside ethnographic approaches.
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Sandra L. Halverson & Haidee Kotze |
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2024 |
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Halverson, Sandra L. & Haidee Kotze. 2024. "Linguistics" @ ENTI (Encyclopedia of translation & interpreting). AIETI. |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10943349 |
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https://www.aieti.eu/enti/linguistics_ENG |