Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: It is a truism," writes Beata Piecychna in The Hermeneutics of Translation, "to say that in order to translate a text, the translator must understand and interpret it" (p.43).It's indeed a truism, and therefore she is surely right to wonder, in this thoughtful and sophisticated book, why hermeneutics has been relatively neglected by translation studies.After all, the objective of hermeneutics is to elucidate the act of interpretation itself, and moreover to enhance our conceptual purchase on how we understand something at all.So why not explore that truism concerning the translator by adopting the analytical framework of hermeneutics?
DOI: 10.52116/yth.vi2.50
Author: Brian O'Keeffe
Institutions: Columbia University, Leipzig University, Barnard College
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4327713327