Intellectio and Inventio in Turkish Poetry Translation

Authors : Rafael CARPINTERO

Pages : 579-601

Doi:10.26650/LITERA2020-0083

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Publication Date : 2020-12-23

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :New Rhetorics has returned to the classical meaning of rhetoric as a science of discourse and not only as a study of literary figures. The contributions of contemporary linguistics, particularly pragmatics, to the analysis of discourse as «language in action» demonstrate the validity of the postulates of classical rhetoric. In this sense, it is perfectly possible to apply categories of rhetoric to the analysis of translation since it is a communicative activity that uses language as a means of transmission. However, it is convenient to overcome the traditional dedication at the most superficial level of elocutio and pay attention to other levels, be it before the performance of the discourse, such as intellectio, or being formants of it, such as inventio. We can consider the intellectio as the location of the author prior to the text from the point of view of field, mode and tenor. Inventio is an encyclopedia of topics and ways of treating them conditioned culturally and historically. The translation of a text can find problems at both levels that go beyond those strictly lexical, even if they end up being reflected in words. As an example, we use the translations into Spanish, with an intermediate language, of two poems by Ataol Behramoğlu originally in Turkish.
Keywords : New rhetorics, intellectio, inventio, translation, Ataol Behramoğlu