Les noms propres se traduisent-ils ? Étude d’un corpus multilingue

The hypothesis according to which proper names cannot be translated is widely spread and can be explained by an unfortunately long tradition of reductive yet very famous definitional criteria for proper names. In this paper, we show that proper names can be translated using different strategies. To do so, we introduce a parallel multilingual corpus made of eleven versions in ten different languages of a novel. We try to demonstrate that it is wrong to promote the systematic use of borrowing when translating proper names from the source-language into the target-language