8/18/2019 Intro Trad Cours
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INTRODUCING TRANSLATION
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WHAT IS TRANSLATION ?
INTERLINGUAL, INTRALINGUAL AND INTERSEMIOTIC TRANSLATION
In his seminal paper, ‘On Linguistic Aspects of Translation’
(Jakobson19 9!, the "usso#American linguist "oman Jakobson makes a
$er%important &istinction bet'een three t%pes of 'ritten
translation1) Intralingual Translation translation 'ithin the same
language, 'hichcan in$ol$e re'or&ing or paraphrase*+)
Int!rlingual Translation translation from one language to
another,an&
) Int!rs!"ioti# Translation translation of the $erbal sign b% a
non-$erbal sign , for e.ample music or image)Onl% the secon&
categor%, int!rlingual translation , is &eeme&‘translation
proper’ b% Jakobson)
E$a"%l! J) /) "o'ling’s 0arr% otter chil&ren’s books ha$e
been translate& into o$er23 languages an& ha$e sol&
millions of copies 'orl&'i&e) It is interestingthat a
separate e&ition is publishe& in the 45A 'ith some
alterations) The6rst book in the series, Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone(7loomsbur% 1998!, appeare& as Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone inthe 45A (5cholastic 199 !) As 'ell as
the title, there 'ere other le.icalchanges 7ritish biscuits,
football, Mummy, rounders an& the s'eetssherbet lemons became
American cookies, soccer, Mommy, baseball an&lemon drops ) The
American e&ition makes a fe' alterations of grammaran&
s&nta$ , such as replacing got b% gotten , dived b% dove
an& atweekends b% on weekends , an& occasionall%
simplif%ing the sentencestructure)
SUMMAR'
W(at is Translation?
:inall%, the term ;Translation< has a threefol&
&e6nition
1) The %ro#!ss of transferring a 'ritten te.t from 5L to TL,
con&ucte& b%a translator, or translators, in a speci6c
socio-cultural #ont!$t )
+) The 'ritten %ro)u#t , or TT, 'hich results from that process
an& 'hichfunctions in the socio-cultural #ont!$t of the TL)
) The #ogniti*! , linguistic, $isual, cultural an&
i&eological phenomena'hich are an
integral part of 1 an& +)
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