constructing pathways to translation - Higher Education Commission

find out what has gone wrong in translations after the event, rather then as systematic
aids for use during the event. Moreover the Analysis drawn from the Translations of
‘Oddas
Naslein’, ‘Khuda ki Basti’, ‘The Red Badge of Courage’, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, is
that the Translators are competent Bi-Lingual, though without formal Linguistic
education, but the fact remains that without Linguistic understanding and Linguistic
competence and performance, the task of Translation is not possible. It is therefore
reasonable to suggest that, Linguistics should be an integral part of the discussion of
Translation, but should at the same time, be seen as just one fundamental way, rather
than the only way of accounting for the translation process.
Finally, translation then, should
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also aim at bridging the gap between the pragmatic
differences as reflected in the systems of two languages concerned, and more
importantly, to bridge the gap between the specific contexts which depend on certain
Linguistic, historical and socio-cultural circumstances. Translation, when it succeeds in
bridge-building languages (SL and TL) reads like an original work. Perhaps that is the
test of translation.
10.2.8 THE USE OF COGNITIVE POWERS AND SIXTH SENSE IN THE
TRANSLATION PROCESS
A full length discussion has been carried out to theoretical research on the role of
cognitive processes, intuition and sixth sense in the Translation process. Only few points
may be added here with reference to the Questionnaire survey and some general
observations. Theoretical readings and research confirms the use
of special thinking,
intuition and cognitive processes in the Translation activity, but few respondents to the
Questionnaire held that Translation as such, does not require some special thinking, or
intuition or the use of sixth sense.
First, people translate by intuition. There is no ‘Science of Translating’. There are
scientifically embroidered theories, and there are even scientific theories of translation,
but there is no ‘scientific translating’. Translators manage to translate a given passage,
well or better, but they cannot prove that there is the only way or even the best way to do