رويكردي نشانه شناختي-اجتماعي به بررسي مسئله برابري در ترجمه مفاهيم ايدئولوژي

A Socio-Semiotic Approach to the Study of Translation Equivalence in Rendering Ideological Concepts

The aim of the present paper is to offer a new approach 10 the study of ʹequivalenceʹ In translation. It assumes that different contemporary theories of translation equivalence can be substantially divided into three major groups. In the first there are those translation scholars who adopt an idealistic abstract notion of equivalence and use it in their own definitions, criticism and the teaching of translation. The members of the second group do 1".01 believe in the concept of ʹequivalenceʹ and avoid using it in their writing. Finally, There are ather translation scholars who seem to stand in the middle and borrow the concept of ʹequivalenceʹ from the First group ond claim to study it from an objective perspective. Having reviewed the theory of equivalence as interpreted by some of the mast innovative theorists of the above mentioned groups, the paper applies the principles and concepts of the theory of language as a soctol semiotics (Halliday, 19781 ta the study of the prablem of equivalence in translation and drows the conclusion thot the term ʹequivalenceʹ seems to be a misleading concept and should therefore be reploced by the concept ʹtranslation lossʹ unless, according fo Hatim and Mason (1990), the gap between the discourse of SL (English) and TL (Persicn] cuilures is bridged