期刊名称：Tonos Digital : Revista Electrónica de Estudios Filológicos
印刷版ISSN：1577-6921
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
期号：13
出版社：Facultad de letras, Universidad de Murcia
摘要：The authority principle is one of the key factors shaping language usage and standards, and thereby influencing language evolution. Translation arises from a specific societal, political and language context, and has in turn a bearing on this very context through its own discourse. In order to make out that influence, an analysis of the relationship between translation –as a particular case of language contact– and language authority can be useful. Current hegemony of English is reinforcing the attraction power that source language usually has in the act of translating. We review basic concepts and specific conditions that are at work in institutional translation. We then warn of the danger for the translator to confer effectively an authoritative role to English as source language. We believe that translators should take on an authority role and responsibility for language change. By doing so, they would be able to renew and enrich their own language, contributing to turn it into a communication tool adapted to today's needs.
