Translation as a professional and creative activity: A metalinguistic perspective

Nadezhda Riabtseva

doi:10.1556/Acr.13.2012.1.1

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Translation as a professional and creative activity: A metalinguistic perspective

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Nadezhda Riabtseva

Nadezhda Riabtseva Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Linguistics Bolshoy Kislovky 1, stroenie 1 Moscow 125009 Russia

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Pages:: 1–12

Online Publication Date:: 09 May 2012

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2012

Article Category:: Journal Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/Acr.13.2012.1.1

Keywords:: Translation Studies’ terminology; metalinguistics; professional translation; creativity in translation; category term; recursiveness and interlingual idiomaticity in translation

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The paper briefly reviews the achievements and problems in Translation Studies (TS) and the practical tasks TS face at present: teaching translation on a much larger scale, educating teachers of translation, and teaching translation students to think and translate professionally and creatively. To deal with these tasks, the paper proposes a new cognitive model of translation as a professional and creative activity and its practical application. The model integrates two of the most prominent contemporary conceptions: Nikolay Ovchinnikov’s new cognitive theory of mind and Igor Mel’čuk and Jury Apresjan’s “Meaning ⇔ Text” model (of linguistic competence). The main idea of the paper is that translation is a creative linguistic activity and thus its professional acquisition needs professional and up-to-date (meta) linguistic knowledge. Special attention is paid to TS terminology, its organization and application, since the main practical burden of modern TS is to provide a teacher of translation with basic and practice-oriented linguistic and background professional knowledge and terminology helpful in encouraging students to think over translation problems consciously and purposefully.

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