Comment on “Reexamining Derrida’s deconstructive translation thoughts from the perspective of ‘relevance’”

Cai and Zhang (2024) elaborate Derrida's untranslatability of text by emphasizing the paradoxical structure of "relevance" and "difference".Derrida's deconstructive translation idea offers rethinking the problems of translation theoretically and practically.He claims that without any origin and source text, we can no longer debate about translation as passive reproduction or transferring of meaning.In contrast to conventional theories of translation which are rooted in the logic of identity, Derrida's "relevance" is based on untranslatability.For him, there is no reconciliatory relationship between binary terms "signifier-signified".Cai and Zhang (2024) address that Derrida's paradoxical thought of "relevance" has