La traduction et l’interprétation comme révélateurs des mécanismes de production et de compréhension du discours Translation and Interpretation (I/T) as Revealers of Speech Production and Perception Mechanisms.

Summary

Translation (I/T) constraints reveal that the feeling of "comprehension" is relative and depends on functional requirements, on linguistic familiarity and on a psychological comfort threshold. Translators are aware of the importance of extra-linguistic knowledge and of the intrinsic ambiguity of language. The comprehension of specialized texts by Translators can be modeled using semantic net-like structures.

Production is revealed to be a difficult process through errors occurring under I/T constraints. It is also highly vulnerable to linguistic interference. Passive and active lexical mastery of language can be analyzed using a Gravitational Model. Production of informative speech almost invariably involves the introduction of "secondary information" which is not part of the Message.