Thread: truth claim

hey lads!

I'm doing a translation into spanish of the fourth chapter of A. Pennycook's Critical Applied Linguistics. I've found constantly the term truth claims and I wonder whether you could help me out.

I've opted for afirmaciones, not reclamaciones, 'cause it fixes better and I've got three options so far:

- afirmaciones de verdad
- afirmaciones de la verdad
- afirmaciones sobre la verdad

The first means not the same in spanish, it rather means real claims; the second fixes logically, but it doesn't sound natural at all (trust, I'm a Spanish native speaker). The third one i the one I've decided to opt for,so far, but it is not so convincing, honestly.

I appreciate if you help me out, fellas

And Old

Ok, vicente, thank you a lot. I think this is going to be quite useful for my translation

And Old is just a nick name; my name is Andres

And never mind about thelad and lassies;from now on, it will be ladies and gentlemen.

And Old

The ladies' contribution to the forum is incalculable.

Dearest Vicente remember that we, women, have stronger language skills than you guys (a fact) so, rather than contributing we are leading it.

I think truth claim is verdad pragmática. Is a term that involves a concept or definition and cannot be translated literally.

Hehe apologies accepted

To me it means practical and practical truth is not the same as "the only truth". Que piensas tu?

Well, these are terms that have a slight different meaning if you are dealing with religion, Pragmatism, or Philosophy, and as I said before they involve specific concepts.

When dealing with concepts like this, you can't really interpret them yourself by the individual meaning of each element that forms the phrase, rather you have to deal with them as a linguistic unit with a definition of its own.

I agree with you though, in that in religion it is a phrase that refers to an absolute truth or dogma, but the context Andrés is using is Linguistics.

PS: If AO gave us more context it would certainly help to find the most appropriate term in Sp.