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Il termine Traduzione in relais si riferisce al concetto di una catena di almeno tre testi, la quale si verifica all'occorrenza di dovendo tradurre un testo, non si riferisce al testo di partenza ma si riferisce ad una traduzione di quest'ultimo: traduzione traduzione di un'altra traduzione.Relay translation refers to a chain of (at least) three texts, ending with a translation made from another translation: (original) ST > intermediate text (IT) > (end) TT[1]
Essa può essere basata su una o più versioni tradotte del testo originale o del testo fonte. Ad esempio, se un testo dal russo viene tradotto in italiano attraverso l'utilizzo del francese, il risultato sarà una traduzione intermedia.
La traduzione di seconda mano è una realtà di lunga data negli scambi interculturali, e viene associata in particolare a quegli scambi che coinvolgono comunità che sono geograficamente, culturalmente e linguisticamente lontane (es. traduzione cinese-portoghese) o le cosiddette lingue minori (es. catalano, ceco, danese). Continua ad essere una pratica di traduzione comune in vari ambiti della società odierna, come ad esempio la Traduzione Audiovisiva, computer-assisted and literary translation, localization, or community and conference interpreting. Currently, its use is often linked to globalization or the practice of international organizations, where a high number of working languages often entails editing documents via the linguae francae or other mediating languages.
In Translation Studies indirect translation - sometimes referred to by the abbreviations "IT" or "ITr" - is also known as "double, intermediate, mediated, mixed, pivot, relay(ed), or second (third, etc.)-hand translation". Indirect translations are sometimes called retranslations,[2][3] but this term is more frequently used to describe multiple translations of the same source text into one target language.[4][5] Indirect translation is opposed to direct translation, which is a translation made directly from the ultimate source text, without a mediating text.
Examples of indirect translation
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Until the 1990s Russian classics had only been translated into European Portuguese via French rather than directly from Russian (e.g. José Saramago’s translation (1959) of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina via French).[6]
Another telling example is the first Russian translation of the Arabic One Thousand and One Nights, by Alexey Filatov in 1763–1771. It was based on a French translation produced by Antoine Galland in 1717. Later Russian translations were also based on European editions. For instance, the translation by Yulia Doppelmayr (1889–1890) was based on Galland’s text and the translation by Lyudmila Shelgunova (1894) was based on an English translation by Edward William Lane (1838 to 1840).[7]
In the TV show Breaking Bad (2010, S3E3), the Tortuga character speaks Spanish. The Polish subtitles (fansubs) are made from the English mediating subtitles.[8]
In translation of religious texts
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]A direct translation of the Qur'an into Latin was made in 1142-1143; many indirect translations into European vernaculars were based on that Latin version.[9]
The English Bible (c. 1385) overseen by John Wycliffe used the Latin Vulgate as mediating text. The Vulgate derived from St. Jerome's Bible (c. 400), itself a Latin translation of mediating Greek sources.[10]
In interpreting (Relay interpreting)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]When a conference delegate is speaking Danish and is to be interpreted into English and Czech where no Danish-Czech interpreter is available, the Czech output may be mediated via the English "pivot". Relay interpreting was also common in former Eastern Bloc countries, with Russian as the pivot (mediating) language.[senza fonte]
Attitudes towards indirect translation
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Indirect translation is heavily loaded with negative connotations. It is often considered as a poor copy of a copy, as in the Xerox effect where each successive passage through the photocopying process entails a loss of detail.[11] Telling examples of this negative attitude towards indirect translation is the recommendation by UNESCO (1976) suggesting that indirect translation should be used "only where absolutely necessary" or the fact that it is often covert, i.e., not explicitly presented as such.[12]
However, research has shown that recourse to indirect translation can also lead to positive results. Had it not been for this practice, certain literary works from peripheral or distant cultures would not have been disseminated in most languages and thus consecrated as world literature classics (or, at the very least, their consecration would have been delayed).[13][14] Take, for instance, the case of the Portuguese reception of the Japanese Nobel prize winner Yasunari Kawabata or the Japanese Haruki Murakami: had they not been translated indirectly, they would not have become available to the Portuguese-reading 21st-century public. Indirect translation may therefore be the most efficient, and sometimes the only, means of inclusion for cultural products from peripheral or distant cultures. Second, it has been claimed to be profitable to translation companies and clients alike, as it lowers translation expenses (it is often cheaper than translating directly from a small language). Third, it minimizes the risk of literary translation being rejected by editors familiar with the intermediate version. Last, it is claimed that some translation companies even prefer resorting to an intermediate version in a larger and more prestigious language in order to produce a translation from a distant culture, since that increases the chances of translation meeting reader or client expectations (as suggested by an ongoing study).[15]
See also
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]References
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- ^ Gambier, Yves. 1994. "La retraduction, retour et détour." Meta: Journal des traducteurs 39 (3):413. doi: 10.7202/002799ar
- ^ Bauer, Wolfgang. 1999. "The Role of Intermediate Languages in Translations from Chinese into German." In De l’un au multiple. Traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes. Translations from Chinese to European Languages, edited by Viviane Alleton and Michael Lackner, 19–32. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
- ^ Gambier, Yves. 1994. "La retraduction, retour et détour." Meta: Journal des traducteurs 39 (3):413. doi: 10.7202/002799ar.
- ^ Koskinen, Kaisa, and Outi Paloposki. 2010. "Retranslation." In Handbook of Translation Studies, eds. Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, 294–298. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- ^ Kaisa Koskinen and Outi Paloposki (2015) ’Anxieties of influence. The voice of the first translator in retranslation’. Target 27:1. Special issue on voice in translation, eds. Alexandra Assis Rosa and Cecilia Alvstad. 25–39.
- ^ (ES) 'Saramago está más vivo que nunca' | ELESPECTADOR.COM, in ELESPECTADOR.COM, 13 aprile 2013.
- ^ О переводах '1001 ночи' / Сайт тысячи и одной ночи. 1001 ночь. Арабские сказки, su sheherazade.ru.
- ^ Pięta, Hanna, and Rita Bueno Maia. 2015. "Integrating Indirect Translation into the Academic Education of Future Generations of Translators across Europe: A Lisbon Model." Translating Europe Forum, Brussels, European Commission / Directorate General for Translation.https://www.academia.edu/20292259/Integrating_Indirect_Translation_into_the_Academic_Education_of_Young_Translators_a_Lisbon_Model.
- ^ Anthony Pym, The First Latin Qur'an, Disputation, and the Second Person of a Translation (PDF), in Koiné, vol. 5, 1997, pp. 173-183.
- ^ H.A.G. Houghton, The Latin New Testament; a Guide to its Early History, Texts and Manuscripts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 41, ISBN 9780198744733.
- ^ Landers, Clifford E. 2001. Literary Translation: A Practical Guide. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
- ^ UNESCO. 1976. Recommendation on the Legal Protection of Translators and Translations and the Practical Means to Improve the Status of Translators.
- ^ Shuttleworth, Mark, and Moira Cowie. 1997. Dictionary of Translation Studies. Manchester: St. Jerome.
- ^ Landers, Clifford E. 2001. Literary Translation: A Practical Guide. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
- ^ Pięta, Hanna, and Rita Bueno Maia. 2015. "Integrating Indirect Translation into the Academic Education of Future Generations of Translators across Europe: A Lisbon Model." Translating Europe Forum, Brussels, European Commission / Directorate General for Translation.https://www.academia.edu/20292259/Integrating_Indirect_Translation_into_the_Academic_Education_of_Young_Translators_a_Lisbon_Model.
Further reading
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Assis Rosa, Alexandra, Hanna Pięta, and Rita Bueno Maia. 2017. "Theoretical, Methodological and Terminological Issues Regarding Indirect Translation: An Overview." Translation Studies 10 (2):113-132.
- Pięta, Hanna. 2017. "Theoretical, methodological and terminological issues in researching indirect translation: A critical annotated bibliography." Translation Studies 10 (2): 198-216.
- Hanna, Pięta. 2014. "What Do (We Think) We Know about Indirectness in Literary Translation? A Tentative Review of the State-of-the-art and Possible Research Avenues." In Traducció indirecta en la literature catalana, edited by Ivan Garcia Sala, Diana Sanz Roig and Bożena Zaboklicka Lleida: Punctum. 15-34. Accessed Jan 2016.
- Martin Ringmar 2012. "Relay Translation." In Handbook of Translation Studies, edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, 141-144. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.