Reconsidering Semiospheric Translation Types

Abstract

Abstract In Chapter 10 of Introducing semiosic translation by Torres-Martínez (2019: 172–177), “On the origins of semiosic translation, the role of semiosis in translation and translating and the nature of sign systems: Response to Jia,” the author makes a critical analysis of my article “Semiospheric translation types reconsidered from the translation semiotics perspective” (2019), criticizing that (1) my semiospheric translations are both semiotically problematic and ideologically loaded; (2) my view of translation is untenable from a cognitive perspective; and (3) translation is not a special case of semiosis, finally pointing out that semiotic processes, and not individual signs, are the source of all types of translations. In this paper, I intend to briefly state and then reply to each of these three points.