Translation study of El cementerio de la aldea (Imitación de Gray) (1859) A sample of incomplete interpretive resemblance
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Poetry texts are defined by an ostensive use of the language, which derives into a significant mental effort on the part of the target audience to process a relevant stimulus provided by the writer and that the audience has also considered worthy of their attention. Such mental effort is maximised when desirable information is communicated in an implicit manner by means of the so-called figures of speech. However, this additional effort will without doubt enrich the receptor’s cognitive and aesthetic experience. Based on Relevance Theory, formulated by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson (1986), E. A. Gutt (1989; 2014) suggests a model for translation intended to achieve an incomplete interpretive resemblance, by means of which translators need to solely convey similar adequate and highly relevant contextual assumptions from the original text. Albeit textual properties of the source text may licitly be subjected to certain, sometimes necessary, modifications in this model for translation, the recreation of the source text must be completely avoided. The primary aim of the current paper is to undertake a translation study of four extracts from Elegy written in a country churchyard with respect to El cementerio de la aldea. (Imitación de Gray) (1859), by the 19th century Andalusian translator José Fernández Guerra, as a sample of incomplete interpretive resemblance.
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