Presentation

Abstract

Each community has a system of signs that are the result of believing and feeling something unique. However, it is also true that linguistic systems also possess diverse strategies to adapt these ideas to varied expressive needs. What happens then when these ideas, facts or feelings are translated into other languages through an operation of semantic transfer? Should the translation of a text be considered as a complex act of cultural mediation whose anagnorisis must be to continue being a 'text'?

In order to answer these questions, the present volume of Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics gathers a series of research articles that deal with translation as a polyhedric study involving all fields of study contributing to the interdisciplinarity of translation. Such interdisciplinarity must be internal - i.e. based on the convergence of studies carried out by linguistics, literary criticism, psychology, semiotics, sociology, or language sciences - or external - i.e. those that deal with communication in the areas of documentation and terminology, as in journalism and library and documentation studies. Understanding the "other" is also building a bridge not only of cultural, technical and scientifi development, but also of tolerance; understanding difference is making steps towards personal and collective enrichment.