"The Limits of My Language Mean the Limits of My World": Is Machine Translation a Cultural Threat to Anyone?

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  • Nicholas Ostler
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Cultural relativism is not the only, or even primary, way to interpret “the limits of my language”: but, for Wittgenstein, ironically, the limits are shown to be his failure to recognize the existence of different languages. This view, which could be termed “cultural universalism”, is typical of Western philosophers. It relies implicitly on the thesis that all languages are inter-translatable; hence any message is separable from the language that carries it.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006