Socio-cultural Specificity and Translation. Socio-culturally Charged Idioms and Cultural Equivalence
Socio-cultural Specificity and Translation. Socio-culturally Charged Idioms and Cultural Equivalence

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at pointing some of the problems which appear when socio-cultural idioms are to be translated and also at analyzing the translation procedures and methods used in the Romanian- French analyzed examples. The term idiom is used here in the sense of verbal structure with a global and non-compositional meaning whose elements present a certain degree of cohesion. We coin the syntagm “specific socio-cultural charge” to define in a generic manner the cultural information contained by a lexical unit. This socio-cultural charge may inform about a specific reality of the informant culture (civ.T) or about the language register/linguistic variety to which the analyzed structure (var.T) belongs.

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