Scopos, Loyalty, and Translational Conventions

Abstract

Within the framework of the functionalist or "scopos" theory, the (intended) scope or function of the target text is the most important criterion for the translator's decisions. However, this is a general theory of translation, which is not concerned with the culture-specific conventions valid in a particular culture. Since conventions determine what readers expect of a translation, the translator has the responsibility not to deceive the users of his translation by acting contrary to the conventions without telling them what he is doing, and why. This responsibility is what I will refer to asloyalty.Loyalty is a moral principle guiding the relationships between human beings.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 235 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.