FROM PERSON TO PROCESS AND PRODUCT, AND BACK. CREATIVITY AS A CHALLENGE TO TRANSLATION COMPETENCE
FROM PERSON TO PROCESS AND PRODUCT, AND BACK. CREATIVITY AS A CHALLENGE TO TRANSLATION COMPETENCE

Summary/Abstract: The paper puts forward an examination of translation based on the notion of creativity. Initially, the term translation competence will be juxtaposed to the notion of creativity and an investigation into translation as a creative problem-solving process is employed to provide a sharper focus on the translator and on translating. Relying on findings from research on creativity, the paper claims that an enhanced control on the interplay between the translator, the translated text and the cognition behind the decisions is possible. In other words, the paper aims at providing a tool that increases monitoring, awareness and control of the translator’s cognition both by the individual translator and a potential assessor. Lastly, the paper negotiates the analysis of the applied aspects of translating by assessing them on the basis of the flow of creativity into a particular translation project.

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