Bibleme as a unit of the Biblical intertext: translation studies approach.
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue
Abstract
The article provides an operational definition of biblemes that covers both Biblical idioms and non-idiomatic Biblical expressions which have not entered the language system yet, their use being limited to authors’ idiolects. The bibleme as a sign of the biblical intertext can be actualized semiotically and cognitively (verbalized concepts and symbols) and at the level of micro- and macrostylistics. The bibleme is viewed as a frame, i. e. an expression from the Bible which aims to evoke the corresponding scene in the addressee’s mind. Ways of biblemes translation are offered in concert with relevance theory according to which communication and transfer of information entail two interrelated processes: decoding of the meaning and inference of what is intended by the addresser. The first stage requires from a translator to identify the source and find its equivalent in the target tradition of the Bible translation. The second stage implies focusing on the function of the bibleme in the intertext. Strategies of the bibleme translation are determined by the following factors: 1) semiotic and cognitive status of the bibleme: universally-precedent (biblical idiom or biblical frame which activates the corresponding scene in the minds of both source and target readers); nationally-precedent (biblical frame activating the scene only for readers of the original); autoprecedent or elite-precedent (biblical frame activating the scene only for the author and his\her best reader); 2) intratextual function of the bibleme: dominant, autonomous or narrative; 3) type of the text to be translated: a) the translator of the appellative text-type (e.g. commercials and media headlines) is supposed to follow the principle of ostensive and inferential communication aiming at the optimal relevance and resulting in adaptation; b) if biblemes perform the dominant function in the expressive text-type, stages of decoding and inference are made manifest simultaneously, i.e. the bibleme in translation is triggered as the optimally relevant ostensive principle for readers with sufficient knowledge of the Bible.
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О. В. Дзера
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