techniki mediacyjne 1

“With many Polish texts published in the past as wel! as today [...] the translator is faced with tbe task of not oniy being an intermediary, an artist, a writer. In order to perform all these roles, he primarily has to understand the author's ideas, to be able to foilow his linę of thought, to be aware he carsnot misunderstand the originaL”

(Korzeniowska, Kuhiwczak 1994: 132)

Constraints in the translator's work

Target culture norms (Piotrowska 1997: 22)

The translator's toofs (best friends): generał mono- and bi-lingual dictionaries specialised dictionaries: of synonyms and antonyms

collocations

idioms

homonyms

slang expressions

neologisms

abbreviations

!exicons

thesauruses

glossaries

encyclopaedias, concordances, fact-books, databases etc.

It is advisable for the translator to invent his/her own system of keeping terminology records and accumulating experience.

(Piotrowska 1997: 24)