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On the Theory of Traductological Relativity
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S004287440006320-7-
DOI
10.31857/S004287440006320-7
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Article
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Suren Zolyan 
Affiliation: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Address: Armenia
Edition
Issue 9
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75-86
Abstract

 In the article we suggest a new approach to the general theory of translation, it can be identified as a theory of the traductological relativity. We propose to abandon attempts to construct the universal typology, which will inevitably be disintegrated into varieties of weakly interconnected autonomous theories of literary translation, technical, synchronous, and so forth. At the same time, it is not considered adequate to reduce research on translation exclusively to the description of empirical practices. Based on the existing conceptions – first of all, F. Schleiermacher, as well as W. Quine, M.L. Gasparov, N.S. Avtonomova, and the others, – we put forward an approach where theories would differ not by domains of description (their “reference”), but by axiomatics. It will be a family of linguistic, semiotic and hermeneutic fundamental theories of translation which: a) are related by family relation; c) are oriented to an adequate description of a particular type of translation, and c) complement each other. The problem seems not to reveal some universal principles applicable to all types of translation, but to relate various theories to each other and evaluate the degree and radius of their applicability. This will be the problem of the mutual translatability/non-translatability of translation theories themselves. Translational relativity – i.e., the incompatibility of descriptions of translation practices and translations – is considered as a consequence of such deep characteristics of the translation as its multivariance, indeterminacy, relativity, incompleteness (incomplete translatability), complementarity and contextualism. In Conclusion, we outline the possible principles of correlation within the framework of a single model of basic traductological concepts.

Keywords
Schleiermacher’s lecture “Über die verschiedenen Methoden des Übersetzens”, traductological relativity, indeterminacy of translation, general theory of translation
Acknowledgment
The research is supported by the grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 17–18–01536, ‘Knowledge transfer and convergence of methodological practices’) at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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22.09.2019
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24.09.2019
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