From Jiří Levý's Model of Translatorial Decision-Making to Optimality Theory: An Application to Legal Translation

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2023.2228531" target="_blank" >10.1080/13556509.2023.2228531</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

From Jiří Levý's Model of Translatorial Decision-Making to Optimality Theory: An Application to Legal Translation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Jiří Levý&apos;s article Translation as a decision process (1967), one of the earliest contributions to the topic of decision-making in translation, anticipates a model that was proposed more than two decades later: Optimality Theory. This linguistic theory offers a framework for resolving conflicts in grammar by replacing absolute rules with violable constraints whose interaction leads to the selection of an acceptable output. The philosophy of Optimality Theory can be successfully applied to the process of translatorial decisionmaking, which consists in proposing a set of candidates and selecting the best one by virtue of constraints imposed by the translation strategy adopted. The article shows how such a constraint-based approach can be used in legal translation. A tentative set of constraints (MINIMUM EQUIVALENCE, NEAR-EQUIVALENCE, LITERAL, IDENTITY, FUNCTIONAL, TRANSPARENT, NEUTRAL) is used to evaluate French translation candidates for an English legal term, applying two different strategies: documentary (source-culture oriented) and instrumental (target-culture oriented). The formalism of Optimality Theory, while mimicking real-life decision-making processes, makes the selection of optimal equivalents more transparent and coherent. However, it is only one of the possible tools that legal translators and translation students have at their disposal.

Název v anglickém jazyce

From Jiří Levý's Model of Translatorial Decision-Making to Optimality Theory: An Application to Legal Translation

Popis výsledku anglicky

Jiří Levý&apos;s article Translation as a decision process (1967), one of the earliest contributions to the topic of decision-making in translation, anticipates a model that was proposed more than two decades later: Optimality Theory. This linguistic theory offers a framework for resolving conflicts in grammar by replacing absolute rules with violable constraints whose interaction leads to the selection of an acceptable output. The philosophy of Optimality Theory can be successfully applied to the process of translatorial decisionmaking, which consists in proposing a set of candidates and selecting the best one by virtue of constraints imposed by the translation strategy adopted. The article shows how such a constraint-based approach can be used in legal translation. A tentative set of constraints (MINIMUM EQUIVALENCE, NEAR-EQUIVALENCE, LITERAL, IDENTITY, FUNCTIONAL, TRANSPARENT, NEUTRAL) is used to evaluate French translation candidates for an English legal term, applying two different strategies: documentary (source-culture oriented) and instrumental (target-culture oriented). The formalism of Optimality Theory, while mimicking real-life decision-making processes, makes the selection of optimal equivalents more transparent and coherent. However, it is only one of the possible tools that legal translators and translation students have at their disposal.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Translator

ISSN

1355-6509

e-ISSN

1757-0409

Svazek periodika

30

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

196-209

Kód UT WoS článku

001030325400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85165297883