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    Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe
    Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe
    Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe
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    Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe

    By Bruno Osimo

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    The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century.
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    PublisherBruno Osimo
    Release dateDec 25, 2020
    ISBN9788831462259
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      Translation Studies. Contributions from Eastern Europe - Bruno Osimo

      Bruno Osimo

      Translation studies

      Contributions from Eastern Europe

      Copyright © Bruno Osimo 2020

      Bruno Osimo è un autore/traduttore che si autopubblica

      La stampa è realizzata come print on sale da Kindle Direct Publishing, Wrocław

      ISBN 9788831462259 per l’edizione elettronica

      ISBN 9788831462266 per l’edizione cartacea

      Contatti dell’autore-editore-traduttore: osimo@trad.it

      Translation studies:

      Contributions from Eastern Europe

      The main aim of this paper is to review some of the most useful Slavic and Estonian contributions to translation studies in the last century.

      1. Lev Vygotsky’s contribution: inner speech

      In pursuit of this aim, it is first and foremost necessary to elucidate the pivotal role played by Lev Vygotsky. During the 1930s, the Russian psychologist theorized and demonstrated in children the existence of inner speech, which is now at the basis of the current approach to translation, both in theory and in practice. Vygotsky stated that everyone uses inner language, the first language we learn, prior to verbal language. Even after we have learned how to use verbal language, we still use inner language in self-communication, i.e. when thinking. Therefore, it is not made up of verbal, but of mental signs – a notion close to Peirce’s interpretants –, and it is used to communicate within oneself, for example when we translate.

      Since inner language has a multimedia character, it is not made of words, but of percepts – smells, images, feelings and, sometimes, even words. Hence, when we want to communicate something, we necessarily need some kind of translation between two different types of sign systems. So, the notion of translation should be considered as a fundamental basis of every semiotic act, because

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