Gradience versus appropriateness in translation: Is the link between translation and linguistics still strong, or is it ready to expand to new areas of humanities? [articol]

Abstract

For a long time, translation was perceived as a sub category of linguistics and it took several centuries and the contribution of many passionate theorists to break away from this lock. Now, new developments in linguistics, among which the concept of Gradience are stepping into the realm of translation by attempting to adopt acceptability and accuracy as its own. At the same time, translation studies continue to expand their interes t towards other areas of humanities, such as sociology or cultural diplomacy. Is there a border line between these conjoint domains? Can we predict their development for the future?