Approche cognitive de la traduction économique: Réflexion théorique et retombées pratiques

Abstract

Building on the assumption that translation is at the same time a cognitive and a linguistic process, the present article aims to investigate the contribution that the cognitive approach can make to translation research, especially in the economic domain. In order to account for the cognitive activities underlying the mechanism of conceptualization and linguistic formulation, we shall focus on some key concepts developed in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics and Semantics (model of prototype categorization, notion of embodiment, scenes-and-frames semantics). Indeed, even though economic translation comes under a specialized domain, marked by features of exactness and terminological precision, it is not free from the problems which every translational activity entails. The economic translator can therefore profit from a linguistic-cognitive approach, integrating the lexical axis into the semantic dimension.