La intervención traductora ante la vaguedad semántica del léxico: reflexiones a partir de un ejemplo francés-español

Abstract

Lexical units with fuzzy semantic borders require a considerable interpretative effort which makes difficult its translation into other languages. The great number of differently nuanced interpretations they offer is clear proof of this interpretative difficulty. Taking as a starting point the contrastive study of the French lexical unit dérapage and its Spanish translations in a corpus comprising specialized texts, the paper puts forward a general reflection on the interpretative activity carried out by the translator, understood as a construction of meaning process.