Discours rapporté et agentivité en traduction dans un corpus littéraire bidirectionnel français-finnois

Abstract

<p><span>We examine the expression of agentivity in reported speech in a bidirectional</span><br><span>French-Finnish literary corpus. The study focuses on syntactic subject change in</span><br><span>translation by comparing systematically the subject of the source text with the</span><br><span>subject of the target text. The analysis of the subject change in translation will</span><br><span>allow us to show that this change goes hand in hand with a change in the degree</span><br><span>of agentivity of the subject between the source and the target text. Furthermore,</span><br><span>this</span><span> </span><span>change</span><span> </span><span>often</span><span> </span><span>results</span><span> </span><span>in</span><span> </span><span>an</span><span> </span><span>increase</span><span> </span><span>in</span><span> </span><span>subject</span><span> </span><span>agentivity</span><span> </span><span>in</span><span> </span><span>translation.</span><br><span>This contribution also shows that this increase in agentivity corresponds to the</span><br><span>adoption of a different point of view in the translated text compared to the original</span><br><span>text. Two types of subject corresponding to two distinct points of view seem to be</span><br><span>privileged in translation in the reported speech of the corpus studied: that of the speaker-narrator and that of the character who acts in the process described in the</span><br><span>reported speech.</span><span></span><br></p>