What Was a Relevant Translation in the 18th Century?

Vasileanu, Monica

dc.contributor.author	Vasileanu, Monica	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-20T10:10:27Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-20T10:10:27Z
dc.date.issued	2017-05-17	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/22290
dc.description.abstract	The paper applies RT to analyse an 18th century translation of a Latin text by the preeminent Romanian scholar Demetrius Cantemir. The translation diverges significantly from the original and was met with harsh criticism. Using the conceptual toolkit of RT, I argue that the differences between the original and its English translation were motivated by the translator’s desire to yield the same cognitive effect without putting the audience to unnecessary processing effort. Both effects and effort need to be evaluated by taking into account the respective cognitive environments of the source-text and the target-text audiences. The intertextual dimension of the text under scrutiny adds to the difficulty of communicating the same message in different languages and cultures.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;15	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en
dc.subject	18th century	en
dc.subject	cognitive effects	en
dc.subject	intertextuality	en
dc.subject	processing effort	en
dc.subject	relevance theory	en
dc.subject	translation	en
dc.title	What Was a Relevant Translation in the 18th Century?	en
dc.page.number	79-96	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	monica.vasileanu@cc.unibuc.ro	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2017-0007	en

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