Aleksandăr Lûdskanov (family name sometimes also

transliterated Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one writing system, script to another that involves swapping Letter (alphabet), letters (thus ''wikt:trans-#Prefix, trans-'' + ''wikt:littera#Latin, liter-'') in predictable ways, such as ...

as Lyutskanov) () (

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, 21 April 1926 – 1976) was a Bulgarian translator,

semiotician Semiotics ( ) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter. Semiosis is an ...

, mathematician, and expert on

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. Ludskanov's work focused on linking translation and semiotics by defining the key component of translation as semiotic transfer, which he defined as replacing the signs that encode a message with signs from another code while doing the utmost to maintain "invariant information with respect to a given system of reference." In 1975, Ludskanov published an article called "A semiotic approach to the theory of translation" that argued that semiotics "does not provide the concept of semiotic transformation, though such transformations certainly exist."

References

*Hoepli 2008 Lûdskanov, A., ''Un approccio semiotico alla traduzione. Dalla prospettiva informatica alla scienza traduttiva'', ed.

Bruno Osimo Bruno Osimo (born 14 December 1958, Milan, Italy) is an Italian fiction writer, translator, and translation studies scholar. A disciple of Peeter Torop's, professor of Translation Studies at the Civica Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori «Altiero S ...

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2008, Milano. *John Benjamins 2000Paskaleva, E., ''Alexander Ljudskanov, in Early Years in Machine Translation. Memoirs and bibliographies of pioneers'', ed. W. J. Hutchins. 2000 John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 1976 deaths 1926 births Bulgarian translators 20th-century Bulgarian mathematicians Bulgarian semioticians Machine translation researchers 20th-century translators {{Bulgaria-scientist-stub