Revue Roumaine d'Etudes Francophones

4

Authors: Alexandre EYRIES

No Abstract

9

Authors: Mihaela Gabriela STĂNICĂ

No Abstract.

14

Authors: Robert MASSART

French language is one of the three or four most influential languages in the world today. Nevertheless French speaking people don't know it. On the contrary they think that their language is under threat of decline due to the global upheaval. Actually French is full of vitality. It is driven by many important debates and discussions pertaining to the linguistic field and at the same time to the general evolution of society, including hybrid French or crossed French in the new French speaking countries, in Africa. Feminism, nongendered writing and so on.

16

Authors: Carmen-Ecaterina CIOBÂCĂ

The author examines the mechanisms needed in order to translate the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire into Romanian. The collection Alcools is taken as a reference: it includes poems that may be characterized as “hybrid” because they are apparently written in a classical style, but in fact, due to their imagery, global meaning and figures of speech, they belong to postmodernism. In the first part of the paper, the author reflects on the requirement of faithfulness in translation and identifies the main translation difficulties entailed by Apollinaire’s poems. The second part of the paper is a case study: the author analyzes the strategies resorted to in three translations into Romanian of the poem Cors de chasse. Interpretation, not literary translation, seems to be the approach generally preferred in order to ensure the poetic nature of the target text.

18

Authors: Alfred N’Dri KOUAMÉ

Grounded in a lexicological and postcolonial approach, this study investigates the work of reinvention and re-appropriation of language in Z. Zadi’s Fer de lance and J-M. Adiaffi’s D'éclairs et de foudre. It aims to see how the language assumes the weight of culture and presents itself as a channel of expression of the Ivorian identity. The analysis of these poetic texts reveals different forms of linguistic hybridity marked by translated or untranslated Ivorian dialect terms in a poetic form, new words constructed from French and Ivorian terms and by a form of interlanguage called nouchi. Moreover, the use of an onomastic pertaining to Ivorian microcultures ends up by revealing the Ivorian colour of these texts.

20

Authors: Cécile MARGELIDON

The metamorphosis of Ocyrhoe in Hippe is paradigmatic in Ovid’s thinking on hybridity in the Metamorphoses. The nymph, daughter of the centaur Chiron and endowed with the gift of prophecy, transforms herself into a mare after announcing the death of her father and of Aesculapius. Her name change does not only testifies to the onomastic problems of the Greco-Latin antiquity, but it is also an opportunity for Ovid to demonstrate his brilliance and erudition, in particular by playing on the references to a play by Euripides, Melanippe the wise.

20

Authors: Anca-Marina VELICU

This paper aims to review the relevance of intentional and of extensional definitions as „textual match” triggers, in FrenchRomanian translation oriented terminography, while also exploring the rather unorthodox possibility for linguistic designations themselves (or at least for their „signifiés”) to function as such, given an internationalized/ globalized (by hypothesis) loan translationsfriendly communication context. We present examples from law and economics (abstract categories).

21

Authors: Simona LOCIC

Since its official entry on the stage of written literature, in the 17th century, the fairy tale represents for the writers a rich source of inspiration, encouraging rewritings and drama adaptations perfectly harmonized with the new eras. One of the most famous stories inspiring these amazing fairy tale transformations is represented by the multiple versions, oral or written, of Bluebeard’s legend. An important example of this renewal is the novel Barbe bleue, published in 2012 and written by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. Our study presents an analysis of the metamorphoses of the spatio-temporal interval represented by the transgression of the threshold. In the universe of the folkloric tale, this moment accords with the atemporality and the aspatiality of the macro-magical universe and coincides with the climax of the heroine’s initiation process. If in the Charles Perrault tale, crossing the threshold confirms the stereotypy of feminine behavior, in some traditional versions of “Bluebeard” and in the novel’s story, this gesture corresponds to the crucial moment of the truth revelation that concerns the mission of the female character.

25

Authors: Cristina PETRAȘ

. Based on a corpus of Acadian folktales (transcriptions and edited versions), this paper describes the way in which borrowings from English are dealt with through the editing work, as well as the metalinguistic activity around these borrowings in the transcriptions. As for the first aspect, two different trends are recorded in the two selected editions: keeping borrowings for one, transposition, transcoding for the other. The different transposition strategies are subjected to analysis (translation, adaptation, reorganization, reformulation etc.). In the transcriptions, the metalinguistic operations around words of English origin (reformulation, use of specific markers, denomination) indicate both adaptation mechanisms and strategies of distancing from community norms. The discourse of Acadian oral tradition tales thus turns out to be an excellent indicator of attitudes and representations towards English and therefore of the relationship between the two languages in contact.