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Victoria Welby's concept of translation is a vital point for all modes of translation. In translation studies, which is a discipline dealing with interpretation, understanding, and communication between signs and sign systems in two semiosic systems, in source and target languages, societies, and cultures, Welby's concept of translative thinking is a relevant starting point in semiotics and in translation as communication focusing on the “translator”/”interpreter.” This is true, not only in translation proper, that is, interlingual translation, but in all other modes of translation, including intralingual translation and intersemiosic translation. Translation is, literally, trans-position. Furthermore, translation as a cognitive process uses thought-signs in interpreting, understanding, and signifying. It will be argued that for Welby, translation is a polyfunctional tool to understand, to not misunderstand, and to promote the self-understanding of humankind. The translating subject is a signifying subject, a  homo interpres  and a  homo significans , dealing with the never ending sign process of semiosis. Moreover, the method of translation is a tool for the mind and for reasoning with thought-signs, for the dialogue between source and target languages in translation proper, or for intersemiotic translation between all types of sign systems in understanding life-signs, texts, societies, and cultures. In existential semiotics, the subject, the “I,” and “the Self” with the semiotic modalities are the very core. The translating subject is also a semioethic subject, a signifying subject, dealing with sense, meaning, and significance from an axiological point of view. Welby's concept of translation not only covers the interpretative-cognitive aspect of knowledge in the process of gaining new knowledge, and testing knowledge, but it covers the very idea of human thinking in the universe of discourse.

The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans : Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool