CONTINUITY OF MIND AND THE PROCESS OF TRANSLATION

CONTINUITY OF MIND AND THE PROCESS OF TRANSLATION

Author:  Abieva N.A.

Affiliation:  St-Petersburg State University

Abstract:  The main reason of translation non-equivalence to the original text is explained by the impossibility to fully restore the sum of the author’s mental states as any mind is a complex dynamic system continuously changing over time.

Keywords:  continuity of mind, discontinuity of signs, literary translation, translation non-equivalence, Theory of Mind, systems theory

References: 

Лоскутов А. Ю., Михайлов А. С. Основы теории сложных систем. М. – Ижевск: НИЦ «Регулярная и стохастическая динамика», 2007.
Paivio A. Mental Representations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Pages:  496-498