Philosophy and Translatability

dc.contributor.advisorRey, Georges Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorEnos, Caseyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-20T05:31:44Z
dc.date.available2022-06-20T05:31:44Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractCan anything that can be said in one language be translated, without loss of meaning, into any other? Katz, inspired by Frege and others, argued for an affirmative answer to this question and proposed a Principle of Translatability. Since then, this alleged principle has come under scrutiny from linguists, who have proposed a number of counterexamples. While the consequences for Katz’s exact formulation of his principle are severe, the interpretation of the empirical data is often difficult and it is unclear whether slightly weaker principles may obtain. In my dissertation, I examine the literature discussing translatability and argue that it has suffered from a lack of precision regarding key terms, especially meaning and language. I propose that putting the question of translatability in terms of what Chomsky called I-languages allows better theoretical traction, although the exact question that we end up with looks very different from the one that we started with.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/xyjz-h9fx
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28871
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLanguageen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTranslation studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChomskyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhilosophy of Languageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTranslatabilityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTranslationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUntranslatableen_US
dc.titlePhilosophy and Translatabilityen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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