Abstract EN:

The aim of this thesis is to make a study of translation which takes into account both the cognitive and the emotive contents which constitute the sense (thing-meant) of the message, and to consider the connections existing between these two contents. This subject did raise several questions and we can summarize here the most important ones. As to the question pertaining to the definition of emotive content, we could identify the latter in the style or the way in which a message is expressed, this way calling forth the sensitivity of the reader or addressee in addition to his comprehension. About the question of knowing if there exists an emotive content in scientific and technical texts, we could verify that some of them allow the expression of an emotive content showing a certain subjectivity, while others refute it. Besides the kind of text, the emotive content depends on the author's intention and the text's destination. So, it is a relational phenomenon. Concerning the connections between the cognitive and emotive contents, we have explained that the cognitive content is relatively detachable from the emotive content on the level of analysis. The recapitulatory tables of the texts translated enable the reader to see the part played by the emotive expression. With respect to the principles that should be respected in order to translate the emotive content, they are essentially the same as those applying to the translation of the cognitive content. In the translation of the emotive content, we should especially search for a figure that is functionally equivalent rather than formally identical; and the practical concretization of this principle leads us to the refutation of the idea of untranslatability.