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- Title
Das Wort als Transporteur eines autochthonen Bildes - kann „Pfanne“ ins Rumänische eindeutig mit „Tigaie“ übersetzt werden?
- Authors
MAYER, ANNELORE
- Abstract
When teaching a foreign language, teacher and learning person often make the experience, that they are able to guess what a word means in the one and the other language, but that it is not appropriate and also not advisable to use immediately the term "translation." As Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language teaches, the word is a kind of sounding expression of an idea. The idea has it's roots in the conception of a special language. So the word gets it's importance from the importance of the idea inside a special language. The german word "Pfanne" and the romanian "tigaie" have their own history, which also ist the history of pictures and imaginations. It seems self-evident, that teacher and learning person can "understand" or are able to "translate." But otherwise that's not enough. To be "at home" in a foreign language it is necessary, to see the pictures, which are the foundations of the words, to get a feeling for the application of a word. In the case of the example "Pfanne" and "tigaie" it would be helpful to speak about german and rumanian cooking, about the manner of using those utensils in the different national cultures and about the „pictures" people have in the one and the other language, when they think or speak "Pfanne" or "tigaie." At the end that is more than "translation," it would be that, what romanian language sees and feels when using the word "traducere." That is, what Ludwig Wittgenstein thinks when he says: "Nur im Fluß des Lebens haben die Worte ihre Bedeutung" (only in the live's stream words have their importance). So it is necessary, to reach the bank of the language-to-learn.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; TRANSLATIONS; WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, 1889-1951; SUBLANGUAGE; TRANSLATING &; interpreting
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2013, Vol 21, p291
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article