Language acquisition, translation, and resistance to globalization

Abstract

In pedagogy, there is the need of presenting a repetition and a triggering of rehearsals. It becomes more and more important to be able to discuss theories of translation, within the same language, from one language to another, or from one semiotic sign to another as a way of promoting interdisciplinary studies, as a way of disseminating a repetition of rehearsals. In this discussion, a theory of translation examines the exercise of moving ideational and interpersonal matter from one mode of expression to another. Transposing ideas, affections, a certain matter, from one mode of expression in a language to another in the same language is one type of exercise. Traveling from one language or mode of expression to another is yet another type of game. But transaction between subjects is always a matter of translation. Bewilderment comes in there not being sufficient understanding of what the different types of translation, different types of bilingualism represent and of how they can be worked into a pedagogy as an advantage and not as an obstacle to expression.