Invariance orientation: Identifying an object for translation studies

Abstract

It is argued that a central object of translation studies should be the mental stance of translators who spend most of their time trying to produce wordings which they hope will be taken by readers to mean more or less whatever they think the source means. These translators are oriented toward sameness of meaning except in a few passages where they vary meaning to make their translations receivable. Adoption of this object of study will bring the field in line with most work in the global translation industry. It will avoid a situation where this approach to translation is shunted into the background of our field, in favour of “difference”.

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