Abstracts
Abstract
The present paper provides a psycholinguistic approach to the process of comprehension. Namely, how people represent and make use of the literal and figurative meaning of words and sentences, how they decode the communicative purpose of linguistic elements, and how memory is involved in this decoding. By explaining the findings of psycholinguistic studies on the mental processes that underlie the comprehension of language, we show (i) how closely related translatology and psycholinguistics can be, and (ii) suggest ways in which knowledge of the latter may be used to both enrich theories and practices of the former, and in the instruction of future translators.
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- comprehension processes,
- literal and figurative meaning,
- psycholinguistics,
- translatology
Résumé
Cet article présente l’approche psycholinguistique du processus de compréhension du langage c’est-à-dire la façon dont on représente et utilise le sens littéral et le sens figuré des mots et des phrases, la façon dont on décode l’intention communicative des éléments linguistiques, ainsi que la participation de la mémoire dans ce décodage. L’analyse des recherches psycholinguistiques sur les processus mentaux à la base de la compréhension du langage met en avant le lien étroit entre la traductologie et la psycholinguistique. En effet, les connaissances acquises grâce à la psycholinguistique permettent de développer les théories ainsi que les pratiques utilisées pour la formation des futurs traducteurs.
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