Translating Lexical Stereotypes in Contemporary French: 'dérive' and its Translations into Spanish as a Case Study
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The aim of this paper is to analyse from a semantic and pragmatic point of view several translation techniques applied in translated texts to deal with the semantic vagueness conveyed by lexical stereotypes in contemporary French language. Starting from a case study in which the lexical unit dérive and its translations into Spanish are examined in a corpus of specialised texts, the study illustrates the translator’s response when specifying in the target text the semantic extension of a lexical unit such as dérive, which is open to a wide range of interpretations. This contrastive analysis serves as a starting point for a more general reflection on the translators’ subjectivity and their degree of intervention in translated texts.
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