Enseignement de la traduction et traduction dans l'enseignement

professional translation - translation didactic

Étienne Dumont, ou l'esprit cartésien au service du juriconsulte Jeremy Bentham

RESUMEN: En la Ciudad Antigua de Ginebra, que termina en la bella plaza de Bourg-de-Four, existe una calle que llevó en otra época el nombre de “rue des Belles-Filles”. Muchos hombres pasaron por allí, tras los encantos de hermosas damiselas. Corrían los años previos a las reformas del austero Calvino… Mucho tiempo después, el 11 de abril de 1871 más exactamente, los consejeros de estado decidieron, por medio de una ley, rebautizar esta vía arteria con el nombre “rue Étienne-Dumont.”1 Debajo de la nueva placa azul y blanca hicieron grabar en el mármol la siguiente inscripción: ÉTIENNE DUMONT Publicista, Colaborador de Mirabeau y de Bentham Autor del Reglamento del Consejo representativo y del Código de Policía penal del Cantón de Ginebra De esta manera, los ediles deseaban perpetuar la memoria del célebre jurista, traductor y gran patriota ginebrés que despertó entre sus contemporáneos una gran admiración

Language Control and Lexical Competition in Bilinguals: An Event-Related fMRI Study

Language selection (or control) refers to the cognitive mechanism that controls which language to use at a given moment and context. It allows bilinguals to selectively communicate in one target language while minimizing the interferences from the nontarget language. Previous studies have suggested the participation in language control of different brain areas. However, the question remains whether the selection of one language among others relies on a language-specific neural module or general executive regions that also allow switching between different competing behavioral responses including the switching between various linguistic registers. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the neural correlates of language selection processes in German-French bilingual subjects during picture naming in different monolingual and bilingual selection contexts. We show that naming in the first language in the bilingual context (compared with monolingual contexts) increased activation in the left caudate and anterior cingulate cortex. Furthermore, the activation of these areas is even more extended when the subjects are using a second weaker language. These findings show that language control processes engaged in contexts during which both languages must remain active recruit the left caudate and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in a manner that can be distinguished from areas engaged in intralanguage task switchin

Interdisciplinary approach in translation didactics

The question why interdisciplinary research and approach in translation didactics has become essential and of interest to translation studies will be outlined prior to highlighting three to our thinking major disciplines of interest. Those are: 1. cognitive and affective sciences with a specific interest of evaluation methods and the implicit and explicit knowledge; 2. cognitive sciences and neurosciences leading to a more proficient structuring of a course; 3. research in competences, analyzing first and foremost the different competences, such as social competence, methodological competence, personal competence and acting competence. Linked to the research in competences is of course the pathway which trainers pave for their learners and which leads from novices to experts, taking into account the interface with the professional world. A practical example of a course, in which all these reflections are integrated and structured according to Bloom’s taxonomy, will mark the last part of this paper

La traducció a Suïssa: una visió històrica

L'objectiu del present treball és despertar l'interès per l'activitat traductora a Suïssa des d'una perspectiva històrica. Igualment, es pretén també de presentar la gran quantitat d'excel·lents escriptors que han esmerçat els seus esforços en la traducció de les grans obres, i amb això, engrescar per a la continuació de futurs estudis. Per a portar a terme aquest objectiu, es fa un repàs històric de la traducció a Suïssa des del segle X fins gairebé l'actualitat, recollint els autors mencionats en el treball de Henri Van Hoof (1993) Dictionnaire international des Traducteurs.The aim of this article is to consider the importance of the translation Studies in Switzerland. We also examine the great number of writers who have focussed their attention in translating important works and the implication for further studies. To do this, we review the translation studies in Switzerland from the X century up to nowadays, including the authors menctioned in the Dictionnaire Intemational des Traducteurs by Henri Van Hoof (1993)

New Cognitive Approaches in Process-Oriented Translation Training

After a brief description of the state of the art, this paper presents new methods of process-oriented translation training. The different instruments used in class, such as questionnaires and other tools, the learning outcome of these methods and the improvement of proficiency achieved by these means, constitute the core of the paper. The third and final part deals with the preliminary results of an interdisciplinary research project with the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Geneva, and the prospects for applying this type of research to translation training