Translation & discourse - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1560

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing the relationship between Discourse Analysis and the process of translation. It is also an attempt to apply Fairclough´s (1992) three dimensions of discourse: text, discursive practice and social practice into text translations. The communicative dimensions, lying beneath the lines of a text, demand from the professional translator a discursive competence which requires not only a mere search for meanings from one language to another, but it requires, above all, a search for understanding the relationship between text, discourse and social practice - between text and society. By looking at translation as a process rather than a product, translators would understand that translation is mostly a communicative process in which they play a specific social role within two different social frameworks