Epistémologie du nom propre en traduction

This study is based on the principles of realistic translatology, i.e., the observation of the artifacts of translation practice as a means of revealing the components and parameters of their production. The specificity of proper names constitutes the barrier to their translation in the classical sense of the term, but their semantic potentiality can, naturally or within the context of literary or pragmatic creations, generate modes of translation ranging from literalism to recreation, not to mention those related to time period and stylistic norms. In other words, the epistemology of proper names constitutes itself within the frame of a semiotic approach integrating the functions of the sign within its social context of production and the function it comes to bear within texts.