REVENONS À NOS MOUTONS: CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS, BILINGUALISM AND TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article deals with the close connection of contrastive linguistics and bilingualism with theoretical and practical problems of translation, stresses the necessity of taking into account a whole complex of linguistic and extralinguistic factors that facilitate adequate communication, as the theory of translation has long become an intradisciplinary linguistic subject. In many respects, it is based on classical methods of analysis, but it includes the most widespread structural investigations that have proved to be practical: transformational, component and distributive analyzes. Their moderate necessary symbiosis in the process of translational activity presupposes more or less adequate oral and written communication, which is achieved by the most successful reflection of the semantic, cognitive, evaluative and conceptual spheres of the original messages in the target language. A special role in this kind of language activity belongs to the translator, his general intellectual culture, his broad knowledge of working languages, his deep understanding of ethnic and cultural peculiarities of the ethnic groups speaking these languages, and his capability of adequate rendering the linguistic and conceptual picture of the world of the original communicant in the translation.