Issues of the Same Order”? The Microstrategies of an Expert-Lay Translation Compared to those of Interlingual Translation

TY - CHAP

T1 - Issues of the Same Order”?

T2 - The Microstrategies of an Expert-Lay Translation Compared to those of Interlingual Translation

AU - Zethsen, Karen Korning

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - With a few exceptions, there seems to be general consensus that intralingual translation is a translational activity that belongs under the Translation Studies umbrella. For theoretical as well as practical reasons it is important to find out more about the similarities and differences of intra- and interlingual translation. This is what this chapter aims to do. It analyses the intralingual translation of a medicinal product summary in English expert language into English lay language in the form of the patient information leaflet. The focus of the analysis is similarities and differences in the translational microstrategies applied, compared to those traditionally used within interlingual translation, and the results confirm and shed more empirical light on the author’s 2009 claim that the same range of microstrategies are used in the two types of translation and that it is rather a question of a difference in degree than in kind. Finally, Jakobson’s tripartite definition of translation is discussed, and it is argued that a division in three separate categories may serve an explanatory purpose but may not be an accurate reflection of reality.

AB - With a few exceptions, there seems to be general consensus that intralingual translation is a translational activity that belongs under the Translation Studies umbrella. For theoretical as well as practical reasons it is important to find out more about the similarities and differences of intra- and interlingual translation. This is what this chapter aims to do. It analyses the intralingual translation of a medicinal product summary in English expert language into English lay language in the form of the patient information leaflet. The focus of the analysis is similarities and differences in the translational microstrategies applied, compared to those traditionally used within interlingual translation, and the results confirm and shed more empirical light on the author’s 2009 claim that the same range of microstrategies are used in the two types of translation and that it is rather a question of a difference in degree than in kind. Finally, Jakobson’s tripartite definition of translation is discussed, and it is argued that a division in three separate categories may serve an explanatory purpose but may not be an accurate reflection of reality.

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U2 - 10.4324/9781003188872-15

DO - 10.4324/9781003188872-15

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85184447684

SN - 9781032037615

SP - 183

EP - 195

BT - The Routledge Handbook of Intralingual Translation

A2 - Albachten, Özlem B.

A2 - Pillière, Linda

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -