A Reflection on Translation Proper Nouns

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Álvares, Luísa Benvinda
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i5.2371

The translation of proper nouns is often assumed as a non-problematic issue within the domain of cross-linguistic translation. Since proper nouns establish an exclusive relation with a non-linguistic referent, they are generally kept untranslated. Instead, they are directly uploaded from the source-text onto the target-text, as an instance of the «report process» in translation. Yet, such assumption is manifestly contradicted by the real practice of translation itself, as proper nouns raise a significant number of questions which challenge the translator’s different, available options. In this paper, it is our aim to deepen our reflection, on the one hand, on the main questions involved with contemporary proper nouns’ translation, and, on the other hand, on the different strategies made available nowadays to translators for them to cope with such questions.