To Kill or Not to Kill
Metaphors in simultaneous interpreting
Spinolo Nicoletta | Department of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Language and Culture, (SITLeC) University of Bologna – Forlì | nicoletta.spinolo2@unibo.it
Garwood Christopher John | Department of Interdisciplinary Studies on Translation, Language and Culture, (SITLeC) University of Bologna – Forlì | christopher.garwood@unibo.it
Published online: 1 April 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.8.1.08spi
https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.8.1.08spi
Abstract/Résumé
Ce qu’on enseigne souvent aux étudiants en interprétation de conférence c’est que face à des métaphores, l’approche la plus sure consisterait à utiliser une paraphrase plutôt qu’à maintenir l’expression figée. En effet, les métaphores sont normalement liées à la culture du pays d’origine et ont rarement un équivalent dans la langue d’arrivée. De plus, les interprètes en simultanée n’ont qu’une poignée de secondes pour repérer la solution et fournir une traduction, ce qui ne suffit généralement pas pour décoder la métaphore dans une langue et l’encoder dans une autre. Mais est-ce que les interprètes professionnels adoptent cette même approche lorsqu’ils travaillent? Est-ce la meilleure méthode pour traduire les métaphores en interprétation simultanée? Cette étude cherche à répondre à ces questions à travers l’analyse des performances d’interprètes professionnels dans un contexte de travail réel. Nous utilisons, à ces fins, le corpus d’interprétation du Parlement Européen (EPIC), à savoir un corpus trilingue – Anglais, Espagnol et Italien - contenant les transcriptions et les enregistrements des discours prononcés au cours des sessions plénières du Parlement Européen en 2004 ainsi que de leurs interprétations dans les trois langues.
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