Brian Mossop | Government of Canada Translation Bureau and York University School of Translation
Translating is here defined as the quoting, in sequential chunks, of the wording of a written, oral or signed text, with an imitative purpose. These features distinguish it from other sorts of language activity—intralingual paraphrasing, re-expressing of ideas, fictive quoting, speaking from a script, ghostwriting—and thus provide an object for a theory of translation production. The defining feature 'quoting ' is taken to involve demonstrating to someone selected features of the source text. Thus the translational quoter is engaged in a dual activity: quoting OF the source text (rendering work) and quoting TO the readers or listeners (pragmatic work). The texts commonly called translations arise from some combination of rendering, pragmatic and non-translational work.
Article outline
1.Defining Translation: Five Criteria and Four Deadends
2.Translating Is Quoting
2.1.The Translator as Rapporteur
2.2.Indirect Reporting, Exact-words Quoting, Fictive Quoting and Free Direct Quoting
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