As is well known, a text is a speech act, namely the realisation and initiation of linguistic potentialities. Although a text can be described as an independent entity, it only becomes effective in concrete situations of use. One and the same linguistic product can form the basis of different communicative events. Every text can be understood as part of a performance that has a unique and unrepeatable character thanks to its connection to the presentation and reception situation: a text is read (aloud), staged, declaimed or solemnly spoken, sung, etc. in different ways. Every text reception is also a unique event that is affected by a wide variety of variables. In this regard, the eminently hermeneutic activity of the translator can also be understood as an intercultural performance in which the role of the source text recipient and the role of the target text recipient converge. This leads to a language product that shows clear traces of this individual performance. Different translators, that is to say, perform in different ways. This volume aims to show that assessing the performative change of perspective, a matter which is gradually gaining importance in textual studies as well as in translation studies, opens up an area in which different disciplines can enter into conversation.
Ein Text ist bekanntlich ein parole-Akt, d. h. eine Realisierung sprachlicher Potentialitäten. Er lässt sich zwar als eigenständige Entität beschreiben, wirksam wird er allerdings erst in konkreten Gebrauchssituationen. Ein und dasselbe Sprachprodukt kann Grundlage unterschiedlicher kommunikativer Ereignisse darstellen. Jeder Text kann als Teil einer Performance begriffen werden, die in ihrer Bindung zur Präsentations- und Rezeptionssituation einen einmaligen und unwiederholbaren Charakter aufweist: Ein Text wird unterschiedlich (vor-)gelesen, in Szene gesetzt, deklamiert oder feierlich gesprochen, gesungen etc. Auch jede Textrezeption ist ein einmaliges Ereignis, das von unterschiedlichsten Variablen affiziert wird. Schließlich kann auch die eminent hermeneutische Tätigkeit des Übersetzers als interkulturelle Performance aufgefasst werden, in der die Rolle des Ausganstextrezipienten und die Rolle des Zieltextrezipienten konvergieren. Sie führt zu einem Sprachprodukt, das deutliche Spuren dieser individuellen Performance aufweist. Unterschiedliche Übersetzer performen in jeweils unterschiedlicher Weise. Der Band möchte aufzeigen, dass der performative Perspektivenwechsel, der in den Textwissenschaften sowie in der Übersetzungswissenschaft allmählich an Bedeutung gewinnt, ein Gebiet eröffnet, in dem unterschiedliche Disziplinen ins Gespräch kommen können.
As is well known, a text is a speech act, namely the realisation and initiation of linguistic potentialities. Although a text can be described as an independent entity, it only becomes effective in concrete situations of use. One and the same linguistic product can form the basis of different communicative events. Every text can be understood as part of a performance that has a unique and unrepeatable character thanks to its connection to the presentation and reception situation : a text is read (aloud), staged, declaimed or solemnly spoken, sung, etc. in different ways. Every text reception is also a unique event that is affected by a wide variety of variables. In this regard, the eminently hermeneutic activity of the translator can also be understood as an intercultural performance in which the role of the source text recipient and the role of the target text recipient converge. This leads to a language product that shows clear traces of this individual performance. Different translators, that is to say, perform in different ways. This volume aims to show that assessing the performative change of perspective, a matter which is gradually gaining importance in textual studies as well as in translation studies, opens up an area in which different disciplines can enter into conversation.
