Mad Woman in the Attic

Communication of meaning: The first ever view is that translation is the communication of meaning from one language to another. Quoting Dr. Johnson, “ to translate is to change into another language, retaining the sense”. In the study of meaning word is often considered as the symbol or the sign. So Leonard Forster considers translation as the transference of symbols and signs of source language to target language. But words are not independent entities, they have associations and connotations. From among the many possible symbols, the translator will have to choose an appropriate symbol for encoding the meaning. The semiotic and the symbolic views only suggest the complexities of meaning in translation. Process and product: We tend to look at the translation as the product rather than the process. The theory of translation in last century was mostly ‘product oriented’; it was only the end product that was the essential, not the process. A very naïve way to look at the translated ...