creators_name: Gutt, Ernst-August
editors_name: Toury, Gideon
editors_name: Lambert, Jose
type: journalp
datestamp: 2002-10-08
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:02
metadata_visibility: show
title: Implicit information in literary translation: A relevance-theoretic perspective
ispublished: pub
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: ling-prag
full_text_status: public
keywords: relevance theory, translation, poetic effects, cognitive environment, context, implicit information
note: This is a pre-publication version with corrigenda attached.
abstract: As an instance of human communication, literary translation operates by certain laws and principles assumed to be built into our human make up. These 'natural laws' of communication give rise to implicit information and are responsible for its special characteristics, such as graded strength of communication and its correlates, including poetic effects. They furthermore determine the interdependence of text, context and successful communication, and limit communicability in incompatible contexts. One important contextual factor consists in what kind of interpretive resemblance the audience expects there to be between original and translation. The ultimate test for a translation is whether or not it achieves with the target audience what the translator intended it to achieve, rather than whether it conforms to some translation-theoretical notion of equivalence.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: Target: International Journal of Translation Studies
volume: 8
number: 2
publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
pagerange: 239-256
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Gutt, Dr Ernst-August  (1996) Implicit information in literary translation: A relevance-theoretic perspective.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
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