What "the Semantic Sieve" Determines in the Process of Translation
Semantics is the study of the relationship between words and their meanings, its relationship with the conceptual and associative meaning of words. "Semantic Sieve" of Translation as a Concept. The essence of this linguistic phenomenon in examples.
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The semantic sieve as a process may obscure the results of the sifting process through translation. There could be identical results in two languages but completely different from the other language. In some cases English and Russia will have identical results after the sieving process.
The meaning after translation does not reflect any distortion of facts rather they reflect the linguistic realities of the translated text. In the case of “God Father”, and “крестныйотец” in Russian, we observe a linguistic parallelism whereas the concept is not popular in Akan, the understanding is existent in the Akan language but the phrase per se is not existent. Translation into Akan will require detailed explanation probably and extra linguistic means to explain the meaning. Translation as a linguistic concept within the frame work of the semantic sieve is not stagnant.
Translation as a linguistic concept implies transferring the meaning of the source language into the receptor language. By way ofa semantic structure the form ofcomposition of the source language changes to a different form of composition in the receptor's language.
The meaning should be constant while the form changes. In the case of the semantic sieve concept, the source language could differ from the translated text. In a case where “kill” was used as a positive word in Akan after an upliftment or favor. The word “waku me” indicating that a favor has been done to one is completely at war with words like “избран” (izbran) and “uplifted” or appointed in Russian and English respectively. It can be expressed in a different way in Akan. Oman panin “aye me yie”, Waye me papa” but in Akan “waku me” vividly expresses the person's appreciation.
Semantically these words in English and Russia are not consonant to “waku me”, in Akan if translation from the source language to the receptor's language were to be measured in terms of semantic accuracy or semantic structure then it is a complete opposite, indeed they are semantically incompatible.
The communicative situation of a given phrase or sentence in a given language will have an important bearing on translation. There are instances where the reconstructing of the source language using the lexicon and grammatical structure which are suitable and appropriate in Akan or English yields perfect results. That is, the source language and the receptor language agree, the meaning is preserved in the translated text.
The semantic sieve displays uniformity, example in its results. For example where “ “Секретыздоровья” is used the translation in English conforms to the Russian text in the sense that while all the sentences in Russian begins with “Sekriti Zdorovia” in the translated that in English also starts with “The secret of good health” in “Ahintasem” also starts with all the sentences. There is cordiality in the paradigmatic relation in all the three languages; there are close paradigmatic and syntagmatic relation between Russian and English.
There is even some closeness with Akan in the Paradigmatic and the syntagmatic sense, except that Russian and English are indo-European languages. The semantic sieve can produce clear results after the sifting process in translation while it can obscure the meaning in the same language, in this perspective the Akan language can be obscured from a semantic point of view in some cases as the paper upholds.
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