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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2013  
         
  Article:   IS FRENCH A SUBORDINATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE? SOME OBSERVATIONS BASED ON FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF BULGARIAN LITERARY TEXTS / LE FRANÇAIS MANIFESTE-T-IL UNE TENDANCE À LA SUBORDINATION ? OBSERVATIONS À PARTIR DE TRADUCTIONS EN FRANÇAIS DE TEXTES LITTÉRAIRES BULGARES.

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  Abstract:  Is French a subordination-oriented language? Some Observations Based on French Translations of Bulgarian Literary Texts. By adopting a contrastive approach, I aim at studying subordination in French as a construction tendency of this language – together with a hierarchical organization – in opposition with the coordination tendencies of the Bulgarian language and its adverbial layout. My analysis is based on a corpus of Bulgarian literary texts and their translations into French. The observation of the examples shows that the French sentence’s hierarchical organization influences in a serious way the translators’ decisions: they choose to dismiss some possible translations (use of the paratactic layout, for instance) because of a hypothetical non-acceptance of these translations by the target language system due to its syntactic organization. I not only criticise from a traductological point of view the rightfulness of these changes motivated by a search of idiomatic expressions, but I use as well the analysis of the translations in order to bring out the predilection of the French language for subordination.

Keywords: translation, orthonymy, subordination, French, Bulgarian.

 
         
     
         
         
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