Translation and Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis is a linguistic approach that aims to highlight manifestations of ideology within language material that conveys meanings and social relations ideologically saturated through discourse. It is a recent approach of discourse analysis mixed into translation as a process of transferring linguistic and cultural characteristics of a text from a social and cultural context to another, in which the ideological dimension takes an inseparable part of translation practice and its theory. In this paper, we try to shed light on critical discourse analysis approach that allows us through a selected example to show the linguistic manifestation of ideology in translation; an ideology representing the background that influences the translator's decision-making, and the reference that justifies a specific linguistic choice among several available options.