Phenomenology of translation: A communicative aspect
https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-68-2-126-135
Abstract
We can translate a text in two ways. Firstly, we can translate a text without paying attention to such wants of a translation recipient as clarity of the translated text, ease of reading and absence of semantic “fog”. The second option implies that these recipient’s wants should be taken into account. This is accomplished by collecting information about recipients of a translation and further adjusting the translation to these needs. However, the most effective way to consider the needs of a translation recipient is to turn off translators’ consciousness reducing it to the state of translation recipients. As a result, for a translator, such translation categories as equivalence, literality, semantic representation, etc., no longer exist; for him/her, there is only the experience of a translation as recipients themselves experience it. By a recipient, we mean a recipient-layman, that is, a person inexperienced in the subtleties of the art of translation, the people who make up the vast majority of translation recipients, hence they are of much greater commercial interest for publishers of translated works than prepared recipients.
About the Author
S. Sakhnevich
Branch Office of MSHU named after M. I. Scholokhov in Balabanovo
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey Vladimirovich Sakhnevich, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor
249000
20 Gagarin Str.
Balabanovo
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Sakhnevich S. Phenomenology of translation: A communicative aspect. Philology and Culture. 2022;(2):126-135. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2074-0239-2022-68-2-126-135
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