Treść książki
Przejdź do opcji czytnikaPrzejdź do nawigacjiPrzejdź do informacjiPrzejdź do stopki
Equivalence
BarbaraLewandowska-Tomaszczyk
UniversityofŁódź
blt@uni.lodz.pl
Abstract:Thechapterisanextensivesurveyofmaintopics,conceptsanddefinitionsin
thefieldoftranslationalequivalence.Thefirstsectionspresentissuesreflectingtherela-
tionshipbetweenlinguistictheoriesofmeaningandequivalenceintermsof
acomparisonbetweenformal,behaviouralandcognitiveapproachestomeaningand
translation.Touchingupontheconceptofindeterminacyintranslationandthecognitive
notionoflanguagecommensurabilityandtranslationunits,thechapterpresentsatheory
ofreconceptualizationasatheoryoftranslation(Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk2010).
Furthersectionsdiscussdifferenttypesofequivalentstructuresinlanguagesandthe
chapterconcludeswithapresentationofaclassificationofqualitativeandquantitative
equivalencetypesdrawnfromauthenticlanguagecorpusdata.
Keywords:CognitiveLinguistics,commensurability,conceptualization,construal,
equivalence,frames,frequencyofuse,IdealizedCognitiveModels(ICMs),intertextuali-
ty,languagecorpora,mentalspaces,re-conceptualization,semanticprosody,semantics,
sociolect,speechacts,tertiumcomparationis,translationstrategies,universals
1.TranslationandEquivalence
Translationisbroadlydefinedastherenderingofamessageorinformationfrom
onelanguage(SourceLanguage)intoanotherlanguage(TargetLanguage).In
otherwords,itistheestablishingofthesemantic-ormeaning-equivalence
betweenaSLtext,ormoreprecisely,discourse,andaTLdiscourse.Translation
isnotthesubstitutionofoneTLword/phrase/sentenceforoneSL
word/phrase/sentence.Itisthere-creationofawholeSLdiscourseina(similar
orcomparable)TLcontext,anduttered/writtenwithasimilarfunctionand
asimilarcommunicativeintention.Translation,asanyothercommunicative
content,invariablyinvolvesthere-conceptualizationoftheoriginalSLinfor-
mationintotheTLcontext-andaddressee-mediatedmessage.
11
