Some Concluding Comments on the Debates and the Responses
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Theo Hermans It is surprising that the notion of equivalence should have loomed so large in the debate. In my paper the discussion of equivalence constitutes little more than a rearguard action. The suggestion was that the logic of working with a norms concept must inevitably lead to scepticism concerning the viability of equivalence. If translation is norm-governed as well as intentional, one-directional and historical, equivalence becomes hard to maintain. Moreover, norms serve to secure values. If translation must filter through the receptor culture’s value systems, equivalence becomes impossible to maintain. What needs explaining then is not the nature of translation equivalence, however diluted, but why it is that, despite the overwhelming case against it, equivalence figures prominently in various concepts of translation. My guess is that, in search of answers to that question, we need to trace the history of the conceptualisation of translation in conjunction with writing as intellectual property, the decline of imitative modes and the professionalisation of translating. The fiction of translation equivalence can only arise and survive if it is in the interests of translators and non-translators alike to present a translation as equivalent with its source, and if there is something to be gained from doing so on the grounds of translation being seen as a mere transparent copy, professionally sanitised and reliable because de-socialised and secondary. Whatever the outcome of such an exploration into the social and ideological construction of translation, using the same problematical and loaded term at both the meta-level and the object-level will only blur issues and ensnare the researcher even further.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004