Dear Andre,
In response to your question about an updated relevance-theoretic account of
translation: I am in the process of writing a follow-up book to the first
one. While its main task will be to flesh out in much more detail the
different cognitive aspects involved in the translation task, it will
certainly also incorporate the more recent developments in relevance theory,
such as metarepresentation and also ad hoc concepts.
Regarding your second point: Let me say very clearly that there is no such
thing as a "gutt translation". As I tried to make as clear as I could in my
book, its purpose is not to propose any particular way of translating, but
to provide an explanatory account of how translation as a particular mode of
interlingual communication works, what cognitive limitations it is subject
to, etc. That's why the final chapter of Gutt 1991 is entitled "a unified
account of translation", meaning to cover the whole range. (It seems about
as appropriate to talk about a "gutt way of translating" as it would be to
talk about "a Sperber and Wilson way of communicating".)
Best wishes,
Ernst-August Gutt
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> Andre Sytnyk
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> Subject: RT list: an ad hoc account of translation
>
> Dear All,
>
> Has the existing RT account of translation already been
> updated with the recently introduced RT notion of ad hoc concepts?
>
> It seems that under such an account, a gutt translation would
> be the one in which the interpreter manages to produce a
> text, which bears interpretive resemblance with its source in
> terms of ad hoc conceptual "metaphoric" mapping,
> hearers/readers activate in the target linguistic culture...
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
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