Lois de l'imitation; lois de traduction. Quel statut pour le traduteur?
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Imitation and “translation act” are homologous to a certain extent. They sometimes refer to the creation act, some other times to the act of obediently copying. Imitation is even considered in translation studies as referring to “literalness” as well as to “literariness”. Such inconsistency in the metalanguage of a discipline like translation studies puts it at a disadvantage in its quest for scientificity. Thus, away from demarcating the concepts of imitation and translation, I will address this confusion between “literalness and literariness” as a fountainhead to analyzing the status of the translator, who wobbles between imitator-replicator and imitator-creator, through the presentation of areas of overlapping that imitation and translation can have, and where the concept “act of translating” in translation studies, converge with the two extra-logical laws of imitation postulated by the social psychologist, Gabriel Tarde. To this end, I confront the concept of imitation and translation in eminent works in translation studies, in order to identify their terminological parameters, and to set out the conceptual similarities between this field and social psychology. In conclusion, I present the analogy between translation and imitation as creation, supporting this thesis with a terrtium comparationis : the results of neuroscientists postulating a common neural structure that is activated during imitation and the language act.
Author: Taibi, Mohamed Yassine
Institution: Algiers 2 University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4281665259