Abstracts
Abstract
The article considers the applicability of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory to the study of translation. The focus of this paper is the intersystemic aspect of translation’s social involvements. Translation is considered as a social subsystem acting as a boundary phenomenon (opening/closing the system) and as a mechanism of the system/environment throughput. The theory of social-systemic functioning of translation is exemplified by a case study of the translation history of eighteenth-century Russia.
Keywords:
- translation,
- Sociology,
- Luhmann,
- system,
- history,
- Russia
Résumé
L’article traite du rôle de la traduction dans les systèmes sociaux en appliquant la théorie des systèmes sociaux, élaborée par Niklas Luhmann. Cet article se concentre sur le concept d’interaction intersystémique dans les implications sociales de la traduction. La traduction est envisagée comme un sous-système social jouant le double rôle de frontière du système (ouverture/fermeture du système) et de mécanisme d’échange entre le système et l’environnement. La théorie du fonctionnement systémique et social de la traduction sera illustrée par des exemples tirés de l’histoire de la traduction en Russie au XVIIIe siècle.
Mots-clés :
- traduction,
- sociologie,
- Luhmann,
- système, histoire,
- Russie
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