This study aims to provide a critical assessment of social networking sites along with the underlying form of rationality propelling such technological innovations. The hypothesis of this study is rooted in the firm conviction that while social networking sites can be regarded as impressive technological achievements, and while there are certainly an array of benefits that can be associated with them, they nevertheless can be perceived as a hegemonic force which surreptitiously undermines the autonomy and freedom of the modern individual. In order to corroborate and augment such an assertion, this study relies primarily on the critical works of Adorno and Horkheimer (1997); Bauman (2003; 2007 & 2013) and Foucault (1977) in order to both investigate and critically evaluate the everyday assumptions typically associated with a technologically enlightened society, techno-scientific rationality and the recent emergence of technological tools such as social networking services. Based upon the findings that have emerged throughout the course of this investigation, it becomes clear to see that there is indeed a dialectical tension inherent to the nature of the various social networking technologies as they currently operate within the 21st century. Such a discovery is primarily based upon the fact that while social networking technologies do inherently possess emancipatory potentialities for the modern individual, they have nevertheless failed to actualise such potentialities due to the following reasons: 1) Social networking technologies have managed to propagate and entrench a powerful sentiment of technological determinism within modern society along with a highly corrosive form of instrumentalized rationality to which all individuals are now required to acquiesce; 2) Such technologies are paradoxically abrogating the possibility of meaningful interpersonal contiguity due to the fact they have managed to commodify the technological culture associated with a digital form of interaction/communication along with the individual making use of such technologies; and 3) In their current format, social networking services are allowing for the objectification, manipulation and exploitation of the online subject to take place in order to pursue and promote an instrumentalized strategy of marketing surveillance and capital accumulation. / MA (Philosophy), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

This study aims to provide a critical assessment of social networking sites along with the underlying form of rationality propelling such technological innovations. The hypothesis of this study is rooted in the firm conviction that while social networking sites can be regarded as impressive technological achievements, and while there are certainly an array of benefits that can be associated with them, they nevertheless can be perceived as a hegemonic force which surreptitiously undermines the autonomy and freedom of the modern individual. In order to corroborate and augment such an assertion, this study relies primarily on the critical works of Adorno and Horkheimer (1997); Bauman (2003; 2007 & 2013) and Foucault (1977) in order to both investigate and critically evaluate the everyday assumptions typically associated with a technologically enlightened society, techno-scientific rationality and the recent emergence of technological tools such as social networking services. Based upon the findings that have emerged throughout the course of this investigation, it becomes clear to see that there is indeed a dialectical tension inherent to the nature of the various social networking technologies as they currently operate within the 21st century. Such a discovery is primarily based upon the fact that while social networking technologies do inherently possess emancipatory potentialities for the modern individual, they have nevertheless failed to actualise such potentialities due to the following reasons: 1) Social networking technologies have managed to propagate and entrench a powerful sentiment of technological determinism within modern society along with a highly corrosive form of instrumentalized rationality to which all individuals are now required to acquiesce; 2) Such technologies are paradoxically abrogating the possibility of meaningful interpersonal contiguity due to the fact they have managed to commodify the technological culture associated with a digital form of interaction/communication along with the individual making use of such technologies; and 3) In their current format, social networking services are allowing for the objectification, manipulation and exploitation of the online subject to take place in order to pursue and promote an instrumentalized strategy of marketing surveillance and capital accumulation. / MA (Philosophy), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:24:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 negri_ss_dr_rcla.pdf: 5032619 bytes, checksum: 52b1fc097fd7fa3a502bf09f7412e1cf (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo desta pesquisa visou o entendimento dos novos usos do território de Rondonópolis-MT, resultantes do processo de internalização do meio técnicocientífico- informacional, no contexto da expansão do agronegócio da soja para as áreas de cerrado do Centro-Oeste brasileiro, particularmente no estado de Mato Grosso. Partimos do pressuposto de que o processo de modernização territorial de Rondonópolis, por meio da instalação de um novo sistema de objetos e de ações, característico do período técnico-científico-informacional, provocou a refuncionalização deste subespaço, tornando-o um centro funcional, instrumentalizado e apto a responder eficazmente às demandas dos agentes hegemônicos do capitalismo mundializado, aqui retratados pelo agronegócio da soja. Assim, enquanto essa pequena minoria usa de forma corporativa o território, interpretando-o enquanto recurso, usufruindo os novos fatores da modernidade em sua plenitude, todo o restante da sociedade local só faz uso de algumas parcelas desse mesmo território, o território entendido enquanto abrigo, e do novo sistema técnico e organizacional advindo da modernização. Assim, esse processo nos revela o uso desigual do tempo e do espaço em Rondonópolis, resultando na fragmentação do território e na manutenção e/ou agravamento de desigualdades sócio-territoriais herdadas / This study aimed for understanding of the new uses of territory of Rondonópolis - MT, resulting from the internalization process of the techno-scientific Milieu, in the context of expansion of soya agribusiness to areas of cerrado from brazilian central west, particularly in state of Mato Grosso. We start from the presupposition that the territorial modernization of Rondonópolis, through the installation of a new system of objects and actions, characteristic of the techno-scientific period, caused the re-functionalization of this subspace, making it a functional center, instrumental and able to respond effectively to the demands of the hegemonic agents of globalized capitalism, here retracted by soya agribusiness. This way, while this small minority uses of corporate the territory, interpreting it as a resource, enjoying the new factors of modernity in its fullness, the rest of local society just uses some parts of this same territory, the territory as a shelter, and the new technical and organizational system from the modernization. This way, this process reveals to us the uneven use of time and space in Rondonópolis, resulting in fragmentation of the territory and the maintenance and/or aggravation of social territorial inequalities inherited

Orientador: Samira Peduti Kahil / Banca: Darlene Aparecida de Oliveira Ferreira / Banca: Marcio Cataia / Banca: Mônica Arroyo / Banca: Ricardo Abid Castilho / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa visou o entendimento dos novos usos do território de Rondonópolis-MT, resultantes do processo de internalização do meio técnicocientífico- informacional, no contexto da expansão do agronegócio da soja para as áreas de cerrado do Centro-Oeste brasileiro, particularmente no estado de Mato Grosso. Partimos do pressuposto de que o processo de modernização territorial de Rondonópolis, por meio da instalação de um novo sistema de objetos e de ações, característico do período técnico-científico-informacional, provocou a refuncionalização deste subespaço, tornando-o um centro funcional, instrumentalizado e apto a responder eficazmente às demandas dos agentes hegemônicos do capitalismo mundializado, aqui retratados pelo agronegócio da soja. Assim, enquanto essa pequena minoria usa de forma corporativa o território, interpretando-o enquanto recurso, usufruindo os novos fatores da modernidade em sua plenitude, todo o restante da sociedade local só faz uso de algumas parcelas desse mesmo território, o território entendido enquanto abrigo, e do novo sistema técnico e organizacional advindo da modernização. Assim, esse processo nos revela o uso desigual do tempo e do espaço em Rondonópolis, resultando na fragmentação do território e na manutenção e/ou agravamento de desigualdades sócio-territoriais herdadas / Abstract: This study aimed for understanding of the new uses of territory of Rondonópolis - MT, resulting from the internalization process of the techno-scientific Milieu, in the context of expansion of soya agribusiness to areas of cerrado from brazilian central west, particularly in state of Mato Grosso. We start from the presupposition that the territorial modernization of Rondonópolis, through the installation of a new system of objects and actions, characteristic of the techno-scientific period, caused the re-functionalization of this subspace, making it a functional center, instrumental and able to respond effectively to the demands of the hegemonic agents of globalized capitalism, here retracted by soya agribusiness. This way, while this small minority uses of corporate the territory, interpreting it as a resource, enjoying the new factors of modernity in its fullness, the rest of local society just uses some parts of this same territory, the territory as a shelter, and the new technical and organizational system from the modernization. This way, this process reveals to us the uneven use of time and space in Rondonópolis, resulting in fragmentation of the territory and the maintenance and/or aggravation of social territorial inequalities inherited / Doutor

À l’heure du plein exercice d’une médecine à la logique technoscientifique, fondée sur les preuves et le factuel, appelée aussi Evidence Based Medicine, reposant sur les principes scientifiques de quantification, de visualisation et d’universalité de la biomédecine ; à l’heure d’une santé désormais définie par la statistique, de la souffrance humaine étalonnée sur le modèle du simple fonctionnement cérébral, l’homme postmoderne se trouve pris dans une hyper-médicalisation de l’existence. Ce présent travail de thèse souhaite rendre compte d’une réalité clinique du soin en milieu gérontologique. La logique de rentabilité obsédante, l’évaluation chiffrée systématisée, leur alliance avec la pulsion de mort et les dérives qui en résultent, tant dans leurs discours que dans leurs mises en actes, ainsi que le défi éthique lancé à la société qu’elles représentent devront être analysées. La seule valeur marchande que le patient peut représenter dans la recherche de rendement et de bénéfice nous pousse à interroger directement le devenir de la subjectivité et à poser inévitablement les questions relatives à l’ontologie, à l’anthropologie d’un sujet vivant la postmodernité et réduit, en tant que patient, à incarner ce qu’Hannah Arendt a nommé l’« Œuvre ». Car en effet : cette postmodernité dont nous sommes contemporains, via le progrès scientifique rejette purement et simplement le manque structural fondateur de tout sujet, pour viser une certaine artificialisation de l’être. Il s’agit alors de démontrer que la psychanalyse peut encore, de par sa méthode et son herméneutique, répondre aux exigences éthiques actuelles. Dès lors, s’engager dans une écoute des signifiants que le malade adresse équivaut à garantir, dans un tel contexte, ce que Michel Foucault appelait « un processus de re-subjectivation » et occasionne la réintroduction d’une « errance éthique minimale » désormais indispensable afin d’éviter toute clôture définitive du sujet malade. In fine accepter de considérer qu’un autre discours subjectif subsiste, même paré des traits de l’erreur a priori, et qu’il ne constitue pas un « néant de savoir au vrai » mais un savoir intuitif cherchant à se constituer du côté du sujet malade selon sa propre logique, atteste que cette éthique psychanalytique est de nature pleinement anthropologique. / When medicine based on a techno-scientific logic is widely practised based upon proofs and facts, this ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ is supported by the scientific principles of quantification, presentation and the universalism of biomedicine. When health is defined by statistics, when human suffering is measured on a simple model of brain function, the postmodern citizen is taken over by a hyper-medicalisation of existence. This thesis seeks to account for a healthcare actuality in geriatric medicine. The obsessive logic of value for money, systematic statistical evaluation and their alliance with the death drive and its consequences in discourse and action, as well as the ethical challenge they pose to the society that they represent require analysis. The sole market value the patient represents in research for return and advantage requires us to examine the issue of the future of subjectivity directly and inevitably to ask questions about the ontology, and anthropology of the living postmodern subject reduced, as a patient to an incarnation of what Hannah Arendt termed ‘work’. Indeed, our contemporary postmodernity, through scientific process rejects purely and simply the fundamental structural lack of each subject, creating a certain artificiality of being. The task then, is to demonstrate that psychoanalysis through its methods and hermeneutics can still respond to contemporary ethical demands. Consequently focusing on listening to the signifiers the patient evokes works to safeguard, in this context, what Michel Foucault termed ‘a re-subjectivation proces’ and offers the opportunity to reintroduce the ‘minimal ethical errance’ currently indispensable in avoiding definitive closure of the ill subject. Finally, we accept the consideration that an alternative subjective discourse remains, even dressed up in errors, and that it does not constitute a ‘negation of truth knowledge’ but an intuitive knowledge created by the ill subject according to their own logic, attesting that these psychoanalytical ethics are clearly anthropological in nature.

Technological Education had a significant increase in its quantitative courses and offered vacancies in recent years, especially after the establishment of REUNI, the reconstituting of the former Federal Centers of Technological Education (CEFET's) and the implementation of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (IFET's). However, many issues related to the educational process of future technologists need to be reexamined. This paper, based on the case study of the Technology Course in Environmental Management (CSTGA) from UFSM, intends to: determine whether, in CSTGA, there is a dialogue between scientific-technical training and the humanistic training; examine according to the theoretical framework of this study - Freire / STS - the elements involved in the articulation or non-articulation between the techno-scientific and humanistic training, as well as to discuss possible implications to the training process, based on the verification of this study. As a methodological approach we use the Text Analysis Discourse, the corpus of analysis were the Pedagogical Project of the Course, the questionnaire answered by the students and the semi-structured interview with the teachers of the course. From this corpus of analysis meaning units emerge which bring forward categories, from which it is discussed the specific situation of the studied course. The results of this analysis point in the direction of non-articulation between techno-scientific and humanistic formation, with possible causes related to the teacher training, the curriculum inflexibility and the presumption on the part of the academic community that these courses are guided, almost exclusively, by the demands the labor market. / A Educação Tecnológica, nos últimos anos, principalmente após a instituição do REUNI, da reestruturação dos antigos Centros Federais de Educação Tecnológica (CEFET‟s) e da implantação dos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (IFET‟s), teve um significativo aumento em seu quantitativo de cursos e de vagas ofertadas. No entanto, muitas questões que permeiam o processo formativo dos futuros tecnólogos necessitam ser problematizadas. Assim, este trabalho, a partir do estudo de caso do Curso Superior de Tecnologia em Gestão Ambiental (CSTGA) da UFSM, tem como objetivos: verificar se, no cotidiano do CSTGA, ocorre o diálogo entre a formação tecnocientífica e a humanística; analisar, à luz do referencial teórico balizador deste estudo Freire/CTS - os fatores envolvidos na articulação ou não articulação entre a formação tecnocientífica e a humanística, bem como discutir possíveis implicações ao processo formativo, a partir das constatações feitas durante este estudo. Como recurso metodológico utiliza-se a Análise Textual Discursiva, constituindo-se como corpus de análise o Projeto Pedagógico do Curso, o questionário aplicado aos discentes e a entrevista semiestruturada realizada com os docentes do curso. Deste corpus de análise emergem unidades de sentido que permitem chegar a categorias, a partir das quais problematiza-se a situação concreta do curso objeto deste estudo. Os resultados desta análise apontam na direção da não articulação entre a formação tecnocientífica e a humanística, com possíveis causas vinculadas à formação docente, ao engessamento do currículo e à presunção por parte da comunidade acadêmica de serem estes cursos pautados, quase que exclusivamente, pelas exigências do mercado de trabalho.

A questão principal que a presente tese procura investigar é se os corações artificiais produzem instabilidades ontológicas em termos do que é humano e não-humano. A atenção dada às práticas experimentais laboratoriais, clínicas e cirúrgicas permite iluminar os arranjos heterogêneos por meio dos quais tais dispositivos médicos emergem. Nas três etapas de pesquisa testes in vitro, testes in vivo e avaliação em humanos foi possível observar uma modulação entre a boa participação e um envolvimento não produtivo que deve ser evitado para o sucesso das intervenções. As relações instituídas nas práticas médico-científicas evidenciam a participação como um dado fundamental para a produção das tecnologias cardíacas, assim como a imaginação que diz respeito não apenas à idealização, mas também aos processos criativos emergidos na concretização/realização de procedimentos laboratoriais e clínicos, sendo, portanto, corporificada. O primeiro capítulo trata dos testes in vitro e tem como foco a problematização do eixo natureza e cultura. O segundo capítulo parte dos testes in vivo para problematizar as relações entre animais humanos e não-humanos. E por fim, o terceiro capítulo tem como foco a avaliação em humanos, problematizando as fronteiras entre a vida e a morte. Trata-se de uma divisão temática esquemática, embora a permuta ontológica entre natureza e cultura, humanos e não-humanos e vida e morte percorra todo o trabalho. Diante do alto índice de mortes associadas à insuficiência cardíaca, os corações artificiais são projetados como alternativas ou soluções auxiliares ao transplante de órgãos para pacientes que se tornam refratários aos tratamentos medicamentosos. Além de produzirem novos corpos e corporalidades, os corações artificiais trazem novos dilemas e recursos para a gestão da vida, podendo operar como uma pedagogia e preparação para a morte, na medida em que a suspende/prorroga, porém mantendo-a próxima. / The main question that the present thesis seeks to investigate is whether artificial hearts produce ontological instabilities in terms of what is human and non-human. The attention given to experimental laboratory, clinical and surgical practices allows to illuminate the heterogeneous arrangements through which such medical devices emerge. In the three stages of the research in vitro tests, in vivo tests and evaluation in humans it was possible to observe a modulation between good participation and an unproductive involvement that should be avoided for the success of the interventions. The relationships established in the medical-scientific practices show participation as a fundamental fact for the production of cardiac technologies, as well as the imagination - which concerns not only to idealization, but also to creative processes emerge in the accomplishment of laboratory and clinical procedures, being, therefore, embodied. The first chapter deals with in vitro tests and focuses on the problematization of nature and culture. The second chapter address the in vivo tests to problematize the relations between human and non-human animals. Lastly, the third chapter focuses on human clinical assessment, problematizing the boundaries between life and death. It is a schematic thematic division, although the ontological exchange between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, and life and death runs through the work. In face of high death rate associated with heart failure, artificial hearts are designed as alternatives or auxiliary solution to organ transplantation for patients who become refractory to drug treatments. In addition to producing new bodies and embodiments, artificial hearts bring new dilemmas and resources for the management of life, and can operate as a pedagogy and preparation for death, inasmuch as the devices suspend/extend the death, keeping it close.

A questão principal que a presente tese procura investigar é se os corações artificiais produzem instabilidades ontológicas em termos do que é humano e não-humano. A atenção dada às práticas experimentais laboratoriais, clínicas e cirúrgicas permite iluminar os arranjos heterogêneos por meio dos quais tais dispositivos médicos emergem. Nas três etapas de pesquisa testes in vitro, testes in vivo e avaliação em humanos foi possível observar uma modulação entre a boa participação e um envolvimento não produtivo que deve ser evitado para o sucesso das intervenções. As relações instituídas nas práticas médico-científicas evidenciam a participação como um dado fundamental para a produção das tecnologias cardíacas, assim como a imaginação que diz respeito não apenas à idealização, mas também aos processos criativos emergidos na concretização/realização de procedimentos laboratoriais e clínicos, sendo, portanto, corporificada. O primeiro capítulo trata dos testes in vitro e tem como foco a problematização do eixo natureza e cultura. O segundo capítulo parte dos testes in vivo para problematizar as relações entre animais humanos e não-humanos. E por fim, o terceiro capítulo tem como foco a avaliação em humanos, problematizando as fronteiras entre a vida e a morte. Trata-se de uma divisão temática esquemática, embora a permuta ontológica entre natureza e cultura, humanos e não-humanos e vida e morte percorra todo o trabalho. Diante do alto índice de mortes associadas à insuficiência cardíaca, os corações artificiais são projetados como alternativas ou soluções auxiliares ao transplante de órgãos para pacientes que se tornam refratários aos tratamentos medicamentosos. Além de produzirem novos corpos e corporalidades, os corações artificiais trazem novos dilemas e recursos para a gestão da vida, podendo operar como uma pedagogia e preparação para a morte, na medida em que a suspende/prorroga, porém mantendo-a próxima. / The main question that the present thesis seeks to investigate is whether artificial hearts produce ontological instabilities in terms of what is human and non-human. The attention given to experimental laboratory, clinical and surgical practices allows to illuminate the heterogeneous arrangements through which such medical devices emerge. In the three stages of the research in vitro tests, in vivo tests and evaluation in humans it was possible to observe a modulation between good participation and an unproductive involvement that should be avoided for the success of the interventions. The relationships established in the medical-scientific practices show participation as a fundamental fact for the production of cardiac technologies, as well as the imagination - which concerns not only to idealization, but also to creative processes emerge in the accomplishment of laboratory and clinical procedures, being, therefore, embodied. The first chapter deals with in vitro tests and focuses on the problematization of nature and culture. The second chapter address the in vivo tests to problematize the relations between human and non-human animals. Lastly, the third chapter focuses on human clinical assessment, problematizing the boundaries between life and death. It is a schematic thematic division, although the ontological exchange between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, and life and death runs through the work. In face of high death rate associated with heart failure, artificial hearts are designed as alternatives or auxiliary solution to organ transplantation for patients who become refractory to drug treatments. In addition to producing new bodies and embodiments, artificial hearts bring new dilemmas and resources for the management of life, and can operate as a pedagogy and preparation for death, inasmuch as the devices suspend/extend the death, keeping it close.

Si la traduction est simplement définie comme un processus de communication bilingue dont le but général est de reproduire en langue cible un texte qui soit fonctionnellement équivalent au texte de départ (Reiss 2004 : 168-169), l’approche empruntée dans la présente thèse est celle d’une opération interculturelle et systématique qui vise à capturer le message issu d’une langue étrangère, à le décrypter en tenant en compte des nuances culturelles ou inhérentes à la discipline, et à le rendre le plus clairement possible en se servant d'éléments linguistiques et extralinguistiques compréhensibles dans la langue du locuteur cible. L'objectif est de déterminer la contribution de la traduction à l’expansion lexicale du sesotho, domaine qui demeure peu exploré par les spécialistes de cette langue. La problématique de ce travail repose sur la constatation que les néologismes en sesotho ne sont pas documentés de manière satisfaisante, si bien qu’il est difficile d'évaluer la contribution de la traduction à l’expansion lexicale. Les études antérieures sur la morphologie, la dérivation, la composition, l’emprunt et la dénomination s’appuient sur la mesure de la productivité, soulevant la question de savoir si la traduction en soi contribue à l’enrichissement terminologique du sesotho. Le point de départ de la thèse est l'hypothèse selon laquelle l’interaction avec le monde européen a nécessité de traduire de nombreux concepts qui n’existaient pas dans les systèmes traditionnels du Lesotho, ce qui a entraîné un nouveau dynamisme qui a permis de combler des lacunes terminologiques évidentes et de s’ouvrir et de s’adapter aux nouvelles réalités. Pour mettre cette hypothèse à l’épreuve et arriver à des conclusions éclairées et fiables, je cherche à répondre à trois questions : 1) Quelle est la structure des mots sesothos par rapport à celle de l’anglais en tant que langue source de traduction en sesotho, et du français en tant que langue de rédaction de la thèse ? 2) Etant donné que le sesotho est utilisé concomitamment avec l’anglais sans pour autant être la langue d'une culture inventrice en matière technologique, quel est le rôle que joue l’emprunt dans son expansion lexicale ? 3) D’un point de vue lexicologique, comment le sesotho répond-il aux besoins terminologiques dans les domaines de spécialité techno-scientifiques ? Pour y répondre, je m'appuie sur Doke (1954) et Matšela et al. (1981) pour situer le sesotho parmi les langues bantoues, préciser les fonctions du préfixe classificateur et établir la différence entre les composés sesothos d'une part et les composés anglais et français d'autre part. J’utilise ensuite la théorie avancée par Lederer (1990) pour démontrer l’influence syntaxique, sémantique et morphologique que l’anglais a sur le sesotho et pour présenter les différents procédés d’emprunt du sesotho. Diki-Kidiri (2008), Dispaldro et al. (2010) et Baboya (2008) démontrent la nécessité de faire appel aux informateurs-spécialistes pour confirmer l’hypothèse de départ. Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence qu’en effet, la traduction a contribué à l’expansion du sesotho moderne, bien que cela n’ait pas été documenté, d’où la recommandation d'un travail collaboratif entre lexicologues au Lesotho, au Botswana, en Namibie et en Afrique du Sud, pour ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives d’études linguistiques sur le sesotho et pouvoir suivre et mesurer l’évolution de la langue. / Whilst translation is simply defined as a communication process whose main objective is to reproduce in the target language a text that is functionally equivalent to the source text (Reiss 2004: 168-169), the approach taken in this study views translation as an intercultural and systematic operation whose objective is to capture the message from the foreign language, to decrypt it taking into account cultural nuances or those inherent in the field at hand and to render it in the clearest possible manner using linguistic and extra linguistic elements which are comprehensible to the speaker of the target language. This study is aimed at determining the contribution of translation to the lexical expansion of Sesotho, an area which has been little explored by specialists of the language. The core issue is centred on the observation that Sesotho neologisms are not well documented, so that it is hard to measure the contribution of translation towards the lexical expansion of Sesotho. Analyses of morphology, derivation, compounding, borrowing and denomination are mainly focused on productivity in order to determine whether translation as a discipline contributes towards the creation of new words in the language.The study begins by positing the hypothesis that the interaction with the Western world necessitated the translation of numerous concepts which were absent from the then existing Sesotho systems. This process of interaction contributed a new dynamism that helped the language to bridge the terminological gap, to open up and adapt to new realities. In order to put this hypothesis to the test and arrive at well-researched and reliable conclusions, I attempt to probe three issues of concern: firstly, what is the structure of the Sesotho language compared to that of the English language as the source language of most translations into Sesotho and compared to that of the French language as the language in which this study is presented? Secondly, considering that Sesotho is used simultaneously with English even though it is not a techno-scientifically inventing language, what is the role played by the processes of borrowing in the lexical expansion of Sesotho? Thirdly, from the word-formation point of view, how does Sesotho respond to the terminological deficiencies in various fields of specialisation?To address these issues, Doke (1954) and Matšela et al. (1981) serve as references to situate Sesotho among the Bantu languages, to highlight the functions of the class prefix and to establish the difference between Sesotho and English and French compounding. Secondly, the theory advanced by Lederer (1990) serves as a springboard to analyse the syntactic, semantic and morphological influences that English has on Sesotho and to present the different borrowing processes. The third issue is addressed based on the theories presented by Diki-Kidiri (2008) while the theories proposed by Dispaldro et al. (2010) and Baboya (2008) led to the decision to call upon specialist informants to confirm the original hypothesis. The results obtained provide evidence that translation has, in fact, contributed to the lexical expansion of modern Sesotho, even though this has not been well documented. The study recommends collaborative work between Lesotho, Botswana, Namibian and South African linguists in order to open new avenues of linguistic studies on Sesotho with the aim to measure and monitor the evolution of the language.