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CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TRANSLATION: POLISH STUDENTS READING LISTS The circulation of knowledge about translation is increasingly coming into the focus of translation studies scholars. Among the various forms of knowledge circulation in this field, in addition to conferences, regular meetings and academic publications, they point to encyclopaedias, anthologies and other collections of foundational texts, as well as textbooks. The present study is based on the reading lists drawn from the syllabuses of translation studies courses featuring in the curricula of various modern languages programmes offered by Polish universities in 2016-2019. It aims to identify the ‘Polish canon’ of translation studies knowledge emerging from the recent pedagogical practice. The analysis of the lists shows a fragmentation of recommended readings, leading to the conclusion that such a canon does not actually exist, and signals a dominance of texts written in English. Another striking finding is a very low proportion of translations, and especially the absence of foreign ‘classics’ of translation studies in Polish.
CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT TRANSLATION: POLISH STUDENTS READING LISTS The circulation of knowledge about translation is increasingly coming into the focus of translation studies scholars. Among the various forms of knowledge circulation in this field, in addition to conferences, regular meetings and academic publications, they point to encyclopaedias, anthologies and other collections of foundational texts, as well as textbooks. The present study is based on the reading lists drawn from the syllabuses of translation studies courses featuring in the curricula of various modern languages programmes offered by Polish universities in 2016-2019. It aims to identify the ‘Polish canon’ of translation studies knowledge emerging from the recent pedagogical practice. The analysis of the lists shows a fragmentation of recommended readings, leading to the conclusion that such a canon does not actually exist, and signals a dominance of texts written in English. Another striking finding is a very low proportion of translations, and especially the absence of foreign ‘classics’ of translation studies in Polish.
Considérée comme une « problem solving activity » (Guilford 1975), la créativité, démystifiée, fait partie du quotidien du traducteur. Victimes d’idées préconçues et erronées sur la notion de « fidélité », beaucoup de traducteurs sont insécurisés face à leur créativité. Ils peuvent alors, comme en témoigne un de nos exemples, manquer de courage et jouer la carte de la stratégie du « playing itsafe », ou bien, lorsque, comme dans un autre cas, leur statut social et professionnel leur donne une certaine assurance, garder leurs solutions créatives et revendiquer leur « trahison », toutefois sans pour autant essayer de trouver des légitimations à leurs solutions. Légitimations qui restent la plupart du temps au stade de « mécanismes de justification » ponctuels. Une analyse des besoins nous permet de montrer comment ces justifications hétéroclites et éparses peuvent venir s’intégrer dans un édifice théorique cohérent, s’appuyant notamment sur des fondements cognitivistes, susceptible de donner au traducteur le courage de sa créativité.Considered as a “problem solving activity” (Guilford 1950), creativity is part of the translator’s everyday life. Many translators, however, are insecure about their own creativity. They are victims of their erroneous, preconceived ideas about the concept of “fidelity” in translation. Our experimental groups show two kinds of reactions to that insecurity. The “semi-professional” learners tend to go back to a “playing it safe” strategy at the first sign of criticism. Translators with a certain position in society and with a certain “reputation” as authors have the necessary courage to stick to their creative problem solving, but with the awkward feeling of a betrayal which they heroically feel obliged to lay claim to, though they try with numerous explanations to show that it is not a betrayal. Their “mechanisms of justification” are partly false and can partly be integrated into a theory of translational activity which is mainly based on the results of cognitive research and which is liable to give the translator more security and courage with regard to his creativity
Robert de Brose, professeur adjoint de lettres classiques au Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras de l’Universidade Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, Brésil), s’entretient avec Bernd Stefanink, professeur émérite de l’Universität Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Allemagne) et spécialiste de l’herméneutique de la traduction. L’entretien a été réalisé en juin 2019, alors que Bernd Stefanink était professeur invité à l’Universidade Federal do Ceará.
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