Tag: Steiner

  • Steiner Chapter 5

    Steiner proposes the “The Hermeneutic Motion,” a fourfold process for the transfer of meaning that differs from the typical methods of translation: literalism, paraphrase, and free imitation. The last part of Steiner’s model is referred to as restitution. In this phase, translators must focus on restoring an equality that may have been disturbed during the…

  • Steiner chapter 5

    To tell the truth, this chapter I liked more, because here he talks more concrete and I mostly agree with him. He starts with a concept of trust, but didn’t get what he means by this. I agree when he says that “translator must gamble on the coherence, on the symbolic plenitude of the world”.…

  • Chapter 4

    In the chapter 4 Steiner speaks about lots of things: development of translation theories, true translation, problems of translation from on language to another, pro et contra of translation. As for me the chapter was quite hard to understand but the language is amazing. While reading it I start to ask several questions to myself:…

  • Kendall’s Question

    Throughout Chapter 4, Steiner comments on the challenges of translation and reaching equivalence between the natures of the two languages. He introduces the notion that by attacking translation, one vaguely attacks the essence of language itself. The author rationalizes that no two people share the exact identical meaning for the same term, yet if they…

  • Steiner Chapter 4 The History of Translation

    Steiner, Chapter 4 Claims of Theory Periods in translation from classical times until 18th century – translation more a version in a new language and not a word for word translation but rather what is the gist of something and then re-express it in one’s own language. What are the assumptions behind such a theory…

  • Steiner Chapter 4 Questions from your predecessors

     On one hand, I can potentially see the demise of words “when words shake off ‘the burden of having to mean’ and will be only themselves, blank and replete as stone.” On the other hand, these blank words can determine our thoughts as we fill in our own meanings around these words.  Realistically speaking, can…