Article published in:
Revisiting Shakespeare's LanguageEdited by Annalisa Baicchi, Roberta Facchinetti, Silvia Cacchiani and Antonio Bertacca
[English Text Construction 11:1] 2018
► pp. 105–140
Taming iconicity in the Spanish and Italian translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Some observations from a (Contrastive) (Cognitive) Construction Grammar perspective
Francisco Gonzálvez-García | University of Almería
Building on Tabakowska’s (1993, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2013) full-blown defense of a cognitive linguistic approach to literary translation as well as on
previous research dealing with the implementations of Construction Grammar(s) for translation studies (Szymańska 2011a, 2011b; Serbina 2015), this paper critically examines the role of iconicity in selected lines from Shakespeare’s
Sonnets capitalizing on the passage of Time-Death and their corresponding translations in present-day Spanish
and Italian. Specifically, drawing on Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg 2006)
and Contrastive Construction Grammar (Boas 2010a; Boas & Gonzálvez-García 2014), I focus on instances of secondary predication with verbs of sensory perception,
causative constructions and aspectual constructions iconically connected with the above-mentioned motif and demonstrate that
iconicity emerges as a very useful communicative ‘filter’ that can help to minimize any undesirable arbitrariness which may
obscure the semantico-pragmatic interpretation of the source text and/or its rendering into the target text.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Iconicity: Some initial working assumptions
- 3.Construction Grammar(s) and interlingual translation
- 4.Towards a constructionist account of verb complementation in English, Spanish, and Italian
- 5.Some notes on the iconicity of Time-Death fracture in the Italian and Spanish translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- 5.1Some preliminary considerations
- 5.2The sensory subjective-transitive construction
- 5.3Causative constructions
- 6.Closing remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Key to the translations used in this paper
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Published online: 27 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00006.gon
https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00006.gon
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