Explicitation Strategies within Lexical and Grammatical Translational Operations
Kinga Klaudy · ELTE Digital Institutional Repository (EDIT) (Eötvös Loránd University) · 2000
Explicitation is one of the most important operations in translation.The operational part of the translators' activity has already been extensively investigated in early translation studies by Vinay-Darbelnet (1958), Nida (1964), and especially such prominent Russian and Bulgarian translatologists as Barkhudarov (1975), Komissarov (1973), Shveitser (1973), Vaseva (1980).But in the last ten years it has become a rather neglected field, either ignored altogether or sometimes even accused of leading us in the wrong direction, taking translation research to a dead end.Some claim that the investigation of the translation operations themselves, draws our attention away from meaning.According to them, after having extracted the meaning from the SL form, the translator should immediately forget