hermeneutics, however, such methodological tools have not been applied systematically. Scholars have employed sociological concepts such as habitus (socio-cultural conditioning) and field (environment) as methodological tools in empirical translation research, yielding new and interesting perspectives on the process of translation. Recent decades have seen a focus on the translator as a socialised individual as one approach favoured in Translation Studies. Now, there are two very obvious ways, one external, the other internal, in which this intentional act is generally indicated, and both of them bear upon the ethics of translation. According to Jakobson, this something more is an intentional act of interpretation, across the limited difference between two historically existent languages - French and English, for instance. Clearly, even a close resemblance between two texts in two languages is not enough to guarantee that the relationship between these texts is one of translation proper. of such a practice can one begin to analyse translation effects as distinct from other kinds of intertextual effect.
How is one to tell whether a given text is a translation or, more precisely, whether it is the result of what Roman Jakobson terms ‘interlingual translation’ or ‘translation proper’ (Jakobson 1987, 429)? If this is a question only rarely asked in translation studies, it remains of some importance despite its apparent naivety, since only when a text has been satisfactorily identified as the result.
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