ON LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION – Part 2

Roman Jakobson

Ana Bacelar

Ana Davies

History of Translation and Theory TP1

Zsófia Gombár, PhD

“A faculty of speaking a given language implies a faculty of talking about this language.”

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Roman Jakobson

Drawing Hands (1948), M. C. Escher

“All cognitive experience and its classification is conveyable in any existing language. ”

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Roman Jakobson

LOANWORDS OR LOAN-TRANSLATIONS:

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Blog (english); Blogue (portuguese)

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NEOLOGISMS OR SEMANTIC SHIFTS

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Rato (animal); Rato (computer’s)

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CIRCUMLOCUTION

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Hedgehog: a small brown animal with sharp spikes covering its back.

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“No lack of grammatical device in the language translated into makes impossible a literal translation of the entire conceptual information contained in the original. ”

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Roman Jakobson

Portuguese

Lápis (singular and plural)

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1 lápis, 2 lápis

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Eu tenho lápis.

English

Pencil (singular); Pencils (plural)

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1 pencil; 2 pencils

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I have one pencil.

I have pencils.

I have either one or several pencils.

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LOST IN TRANSLATION

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‘A gradual loss is like a circular series of unfavorable currency transactions.’

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S. Karcevskij

“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”

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Roman Jakobson

English: life. (noun)

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Russian: жизнь (feminine noun)

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Portuguese: vida (feminine noun)

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Czech: život (masculine noun)

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Сестра моя жизнь

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My sister life

Traduttore, traditore (italian) = Paranomastic value

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Tradutor, traidor (portuguese) = Paranomastic value

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The translator is a betrayer (english) = No paranomastic value

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PARANOMASIA = PUN

THANK YOU

ON LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION – Part 2

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Ana Bacelar

Ana Davies