Wittgenstein, Translation, and Semiotics
Published online: 1 January 1989
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.1.1.06gor
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.1.1.06gor
Abstract
Wittgenstein discusses interlingual and intersemiotic translation, both in its own right and, more often, as an object of comparison. In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), he puts forth a pictorial view which can be construed in Saussurian terms. This rule-governed notion of translation is, in Wittgenstein's later work, dynamized and based upon the use of signs. Translation is one of the language-games in Philosophical Investigations (1953). Wittgenstein's language-game of translation approaches Peirce's semiosis. Language-games are thirds which, in their nonverbal aspects, also partake of secondness and firstness. The language-game of translation occurs, at least theoretically, in three stages corresponding to the three logical interpretants.
Résumé
Wittgenstein discute la traduction en tant que phénomène à la fois interlingual et intersémiotique, d'abord en lui-même, ensuite, plus souvent, comme un objet de comparaison. Son Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) nous offre une image picturale qui peut être formulée en termes saussuriens. Ce concept de traduction soumise à des règles deviendra plus dynamique dans les travaux ultérieurs, et sera davantage mis en rapport avec l'usage des signes. Dans les Philosophical Investigations (1953), la traduction devient l'un des jeux langagiers que l'on peut rapprocher de la sémiosis définie par Peirce. Les jeux de langage sont des troisièmes qui, dans leurs aspects non-verbaux, participent de la secondéité et de la priméité. Le jeu de langage qu'est la traduction se réalise, au moins en théorie, en trois étapes qui correspondent aux trois interprétants logiques.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Picture Theory and Translation
- From Icon to Semiosis
- Language-games
- Culture
- Ground
- Firsts, Seconds, Thirds
- The Language-game of Translation
- Translation as Semiosis
- Translation: Wittgenstein and Peirce
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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