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Remarks on (Purported) Translators’ Tasks and Translation Teaching

Goranka Antunović ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Sažetak

Translator training requires contribution by experts in a variety of fields. The article singles
out language experts, who sometimes fail to realize that the linguistic behavior of translators
need not necessarily follow the same principles as that of a different group of language
professionals. Several examples are given of recommendations that could be heard at recent
translator seminars in Zagreb that are not in tune with the prevalent contemporary understanding
of translation process and translators’ role. They involve insistence on a single
pattern as ‘the right one’ and thereby ignore both the textual and the non-linguistic determinants
of translation activity. The author favors a different understanding of translators’ tasks
and desired linguistic behavior, namely the one asserting translation as an intentional communicative
process. The position implies that the translator should take note of and act in
line with characteristics of the situational (including textual) context and the communicative
intentions and expectations of the source and target participants in the translation process.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

20988

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/20988

Datum izdavanja:

12.1.2004.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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