On examination of translator' identity from the viewpoint of intertextuality

The Intertextuality theory, a post-modernist thought, initiated from semiotics and attended to by literary critics, caused great impact on the traditional translation theories. It reminds scholars who take up translation study and translation practice to investigate the relationship between translation and intertextuality which adds a new dimension to translation study. The Intertextuality theory sees translation as an exchange of different texts which completely subverts the original author' authority in traditional translation theories and endows translators with three identities i.e. reader, interpreter and author. This paper expounds the way translators utilize their positions from different levels to realize the exchange of texts in the process of translation.