The Translator as Communicator

> expository descriptive
type.
semiotics:
a dimension of context
which regulates the
relationship of texts or parts
of texts to each other as
signs. Semiotics thus relies
on the interaction not only
between speaker and hearer
but also between speaker/
hearer and their texts, and
between text and text. This 
>
intertextuality
is governed
by a variety of 
socio-
cultural
factors (e.g. 
>
politeness),
and 
>
rhetorical purpose,
yielding in the process a set
of socio-cultural 
objects
with which the social life of
given linguistic
communities are normally
identified (e.g. the concept of
‘honour’ to an Argentinian).
These factors and
conventions are ultimately
responsible for the way the
socio-textual
practices
develop within a given
community of text users (e.g.
the norms of news
reporting). (See 
> genre, >
text, > discourse.)
196 GLOSSARY

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sign:
a unit of signification in
which the linguistic form
(signifier) stands for a
concrete object or concept
(signified).
When the notion
of sign is extended to include
anything which means
something to somebody in
some respect or capacity,
signs can then be said to refer
to cultural objects such as
honour
(micro-signs),
as
well as to more global
structures such as text, genre
and discourse 
(macro-
signs).
simultaneous interpreting:
see 
liaison interpreting
situationality:
see