A systematic approach to interpretation and translation

Michela Canepari

Description

Une approche méthodologique pour l'interprétation et la traduction (de l'anglais ou vers l'anglais) de différents genres de texte. À travers l'analyse de toute une série de cas (ouvrages littéraires, films, BD, annonces publicitaires...), ce manuel rédigé en anglais systématise les phases du processus de décodification et de recodification dans le passage d'une langue à une autre.

Sujets

• Linguistique
• Langue

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 06 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9782140142444
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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M ICHELA C ANEPARI

A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION

CASE STUDIES

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M ICHELA C ANEPARI

A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION

CASE STUDIES

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I NTRODUCTION Notes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1 Between literature and linguistics

C HAPTER 1 For a systematic model of interpretation

C HAPTER 2 Linguistic and narratological issues in the narrative of Christine Brooke-Rose Notes

C HAPTER 3 For a systematic model of translation

C HAPTER 4 Translating intranational varieties of language Notes

C HAPTER 5 Translating international varieties of English Notes

C HAPTER 6 Translations and re-translations Notes

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Section 2 Hybrid texts

C HAPTER 7 Cinematographic adaptations and remakes as forms of (re)translations Notes

C HAPTER 8 Constructing and translating cultural identities in situation comedies Notes

C HAPTER 9 Interpreting the synergy of verbal and visual language in advertising discourse Notes

C HAPTER 10 Interpreting and translating political discourse and the language of newspapers Notes

C HAPTER 11 Translating comics and graphic novels Notes

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I NTRODUCTION

The aim of the present volume is to offer a systematic approach to the processes of interpretation and translation of various textual types. These are, indeed, the pillars of that ‘infi- nite text’ which, according to Barthes (1973), we all inhabit and that readers are required to confront in their everyday life. This volume therefore aims at prompting a systematic attitude to the decodification and, in those instances in which transla- tion is involved, the recodification of such texts, providing readers with some tools that could enable them to achieve a higher awareness of the reality they share. A systematic approach to interpretation and translation therefore presents a series of case studies and analyses of var- 1 ious textual types, that will be carried out from different critical perspectives, in order to demonstrate, on the one hand, the extent to which various disciplines that developed in the field of linguistics have a bearing on the creation of such texts. As a consequence, it will become apparent how the interpreta- tion of the latter, and the reality they construct both intra and extra-diegetically (Genette 1972), should be informed by such notions. On the other hand, this volume demonstrates how the translation of the various textual typologies presented here should equally take advantage of these notions in order to put into practice a more ‘holistic’ approach to the practice of inter- pretation and translation. Indeed, it is only by being aware of the mechanisms represented in the texts themselves that readers can appreciate their full potential and that translators can hope to reproduce them in their target texts, thereby obtaining final products of high quality, characterised by the same illocutionary force and the same perlocutionary effect of the original. This, naturally, involves a precise decodification of etymologies, connotative values of words, pragmatic uses of language, and so on.

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In order to emphasise the pervasiveness of these issues, the texts analysed here cover many different typologies: from lit- erary texts such as novels and narrative poems to popular products like films, comics, advertisements, television series, graphic novels, etc. The disciplines referred to during these analyses are equally varied, ranging from sociolinguistics to discourse analysis, pragmatics, semantics, translation and cul- tural studies, etc. In order to systematise the analytical approach as much as possible, the volume is thus divided into two main sections, dedicated to different types of texts: texts that rely on written language only and hybrid texts, in which verbal language combines with visual elements, which can be either in motion (as with audio-visual products) or static (like in comics). While developing different types of analyses, the two main sections and their chapters find their coherence and cohesion in the application of a systematic model of ‘interpretation’, which is presented at the very beginning of the volume. This SI model will then be adapted to the practice of translation, in order to outline the various phases entailed by the process of interpre- tation and reformulation. Thus, the two main research interests of the volume – namely the study of language and translation – very often intersect and overlap. If this is so, it is because the notion of interpretation (characteristic of the first, ‘reading’, phase) and the concept of reformulation (typical of the transla- tion phase proper) are here understood as two closely connected processes, which determine the way human beings understand their surrounding reality, the place they take in society, how they relate to each other and, fundamentally, to themselves. As George Steiner maintains, in fact, «Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence» (Steiner, 1975). If this is so, it is precisely because any act of interpreta- tion implies a translation process of some sort. As Hartman states, according to Steiner «We are all translators: interlingual (between languages) translation is but a special, if important, form of a more general ‘hermeneutic motion’ which includes

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