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2014
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne i Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Translator’s inferential excursions, with imagination in the background
Abstract
In a literary work, signals that trigger reader’s inferential excursions
allow the reader’s imagination to identify with and control the represented
world. They constitute an important element of sense-generating
mechanism. Thanks to imagination, the translator imitates the inferential
mechanism of the original on various level’s of the text’s structure,
activating the imagination of the reader. The translator’s imagination is
bi- or multivalent in having the linguistic-semiotic, literary, and cultural
quality. Although it manifests itself in language, it goes beyond the
boundaries of language. Imagination is a form of consciousness which has no object of its own,
and a medium connecting a specific non-imaginary knowledge with
representations. It constitutes a mind faculty shaped on the basis of sensory
and mental perception. It is derived from individual principles of
perception and cognition data processing. It usually requires a stymulus
to activate the capabilities of the imagining subject. As a mind faculty,
imagination is based on the mental capability common to all people,
which is the ability to create chains of associations.
Translator’s respect for inferential excursions in the original text is
necessary for retaining the original meaning, regardless of whether they
occur on the phonetic-phonological level (as in Ionesco’s "The Chairs"),
or on the level of image-semantic and syntactic relations (as in translation
of Apollinaire’s "Zone"), or on the level of syntax (as in translation
of Mrożek’s short stories into Slovenian), or on the level of cultural
communication (as in Slovenian translation of Gombrowicz’s "Trans-
-Atlantic").
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translation, imagination, sense, inferential excursions
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2014, nr 23 (43), s. 29-48