Distorsiuni ale comunicării în limba română legate de ... - A. Philippide

Constantin MANEA, Maria-Camelia MANEA,
Dănuţa-Magdalena PRUNEANU
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Comunication’s distorsions in romanian language,
in relation with the translation
It is the main aim of the present paper to present evidence corroborating the opinion
that much of the neologizing lingo today’s Romanian press uses is, to some extent, the result
of translation (or else, mistranslation) from sources written – or orally delivered – in English.
When translation is seen as mere ‘transliteration’ of a text / message conveyed in a foreign
language, messages naturally go awry; but when a whole domain of the target-language (i.e.
the lexicon of contemporary Romanian) is affected by this trend, the influence thus recorded
can be really critical. The channels which that influence has adopted in order to permeate the
more recent Romanian vocabulary are no doubt various: literal translation, literal taking
over, misadaptation, inept or infelicitous equivalents, loan translation / calque, etc. The
authors did not choose a normative or (hyper)critical approach.
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