Intralingual translation¶

intralingual_translation · translation · catalogued

A rendering of a text into another register or period of its own language, rather than into a different one.

Provenance¶

Source: Roman Jakobson, On Linguistic Aspects of Translation (1959)
Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details¶

Kind: both
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
Also known as: rewording

Notes¶

No acceptance criterion exists. Register and period are properties of usage rather than of form. Deciding this needs two judgements at once: that the content survived, which is the translation problem, and that the register moved, which no lexicon encodes. A list of archaisms would decide something narrower than the definition claims, and passing it would not make a text a rendering of the source.

Prompt hint¶

Recast the passage in a different register of the same language.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.