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O modelo cognitivo de análise textual e a tradução
A cognitive model for text analysis and translation

Author(s): Daniel Słapek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Cognitive model for text analysis; minimal translation unit; conventional imagery; scene construal; translation studies.

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to describe a cognitive model for text analysis proposed by E. Tabakowska, as well as its implications for translation theory and practice. The model uses the aspects of conventional imagery in cognitive grammar (perspective, prominence, ground, iconicity, etc.) to evaluate the fit between a translation with the original text. The author tries to illustrate the importance of scene construal in translation practice by analyzing a Portuguese translation of one of the W. Szymborska’s works Terrorysta, on patrzy. This presentation of a cognitive approach to translation theory is complete with a brief sketch of the main assumptions of K. Hejwowsky’s cognitivecommunicative theory of translation. A secondary aim is to promote the Polish school of translation studies.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 234-248
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French