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Abstract
This essay represents a preliminary attempt to devise a method for examining words and their apparently equivalent translations as they appear in the news media. Taking Walter Benjamin’s essay on the task of the translator as a starting point and drawing on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Antoine Culioli’s and Paul Laurendeau’s enunciative linguistics, the author argues that this appearance of equivalence is deceptive, for at least two reasons: first, because differing, culturally specific assumptions underlie the interpretations of these words and their translations; and second, because as the implications of these words and their translations are reported upon and contested (by political actors, by reporters, by editorialists), their meanings effectively change.
Keywords/Mots-Clés:
- news media,
- translator’s task,
- phenomenology,
- enunciative linguistics
Résumé
Cet essai représente une tentative préliminaire de formuler une approche pour examiner des mots et leurs traductions qui sont employés dans les médias journalistiques et qui, selon toute apparence, sont équivalents. En prenant comme point de départ l’essai sur la tâche du traducteur de Walter Benjamin et en se servant de la phénoménologie d’Edmund Husserl et de la linguistique énonciative d’Antoine Culioli et de Paul Laurendeau, l’auteur soutient que cette équivalence apparente est trompeuse, et ce pour au moins deux raisons : d’abord parce que des présuppositions culturelles différentes sous-tendent l’interprétation de ces mots et de leurs traductions; ensuite au fur et à mesure que les implications de ces mots et de leurs traductions sont transmises et contestées (par des acteurs politiques, des reporters, des équipes de rédaction), leurs sens sont en fait transformés.
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