Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le phénomène de l’explicitation en traduction et d’observer la mise en œuvre de la stratégie d’explicitation dans un grand corpus composé de traductions en arabe du Monde Diplomatique (MD) durant la période 2001-2011. Elle s’articule autour de cinq questions centrales : Qu’est-ce que l’explicitation ? Qu’est-ce qu’on explicite ? Pourquoi ? Pour qui ? Comment ? Pour mener à bien cette investigation, nous avons élaboré un appareillage conceptuel dont la Théorie Interprétative de la Traduction (TIT) constitue le socle et auquel les autres approches traductives ont apporté des outils conceptuels et méthodologiques complémentaires. A la lumière des travaux antérieurs, nous avons d’abord tenté de redéfinir le concept de l’explicitation afin de déterminer les caractéristiques de cette stratégie ainsi que ses fondements théoriques. Ensuite, nous nous sommes penché sur l'analyse du corpus du MD composé d’environ 5000 exemples d’explicitation en contexte. Grâce à l'analyse discursive des décisions d’explicitation prises par les traducteurs du MD, nous avons pu dégager cinq problématiques principales qui suscitaient leur intervention et six techniques par le biais desquelles ils mettaient en œuvre les explicitations dans les textes arabes. Enfin, nous proposons cinq maximes susceptibles d’optimiser l’application de cette stratégie de sorte à permettre aux lecteurs cibles d’accéder aisément au sens des textes sources. L’explicitation devient pour nous un travail de marqueterie qui consiste à insérer dans le fil du texte des suppléments informationnels pertinents, mais surtout limités au strict nécessaire. Tout est question de « bon sens ». / The present thesis explores the concept of explicitation in translation and the implementation of this strategy on a large corpus of Arabic translations of “Le Monde Diplomatique” (MD) from 2001 to 2011. The argument revolves around five central questions: What is explicitation? What is explicitated? Why? For whom? and How? To carry out this investigation, a conceptual framework was developed of which The Interpretive Theory of Translation (TIT) forms the basis, with other translational approaches contributing additional conceptual and methodological tools. In the light of previous research, we have first attempted to redefine the concept of explicitation in order to determine the distinctive features of this strategy as well as its theoretical foundations. Then, we have focused on the analysis of about 5000 examples of explicitation from MD in their context. Through the discursive analysis of the reasons why the translators of MD decided to apply explicitation, we have identified five main issues that justify the strategy and six techniques by which the translators apply it to Arabic texts. Finally, five translational maxims are proposed that optimize the application of explicitation so as to enable readers in the target language easy access to the meaning of the source text. Our conclusion is that when the explicitation strategy is applied in this way, the result is similar to marquetry with supplementary, but above all strictly relevant information inlaid into the text. It is all about ‘common sense’.

Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le phénomène de l’explicitation en traduction et d’observer la mise en œuvre de la stratégie d’explicitation dans un grand corpus composé de traductions en arabe du Monde Diplomatique (MD) durant la période 2001-2011. Elle s’articule autour de cinq questions centrales : Qu’est-ce que l’explicitation ? Qu’est-ce qu’on explicite ? Pourquoi ? Pour qui ? Comment ? Pour mener à bien cette investigation, nous avons élaboré un appareillage conceptuel dont la Théorie Interprétative de la Traduction (TIT) constitue le socle et auquel les autres approches traductives ont apporté des outils conceptuels et méthodologiques complémentaires. A la lumière des travaux antérieurs, nous avons d’abord tenté de redéfinir le concept de l’explicitation afin de déterminer les caractéristiques de cette stratégie ainsi que ses fondements théoriques. Ensuite, nous nous sommes penché sur l'analyse du corpus du MD composé d’environ 5000 exemples d’explicitation en contexte. Grâce à l'analyse discursive des décisions d’explicitation prises par les traducteurs du MD, nous avons pu dégager cinq problématiques principales qui suscitaient leur intervention et six techniques par le biais desquelles ils mettaient en œuvre les explicitations dans les textes arabes. Enfin, nous proposons cinq maximes susceptibles d’optimiser l’application de cette stratégie de sorte à permettre aux lecteurs cibles d’accéder aisément au sens des textes sources. L’explicitation devient pour nous un travail de marqueterie qui consiste à insérer dans le fil du texte des suppléments informationnels pertinents, mais surtout limités au strict nécessaire. Tout est question de « bon sens ». / The present thesis explores the concept of explicitation in translation and the implementation of this strategy on a large corpus of Arabic translations of “Le Monde Diplomatique” (MD) from 2001 to 2011. The argument revolves around five central questions: What is explicitation? What is explicitated? Why? For whom? and How? To carry out this investigation, a conceptual framework was developed of which The Interpretive Theory of Translation (TIT) forms the basis, with other translational approaches contributing additional conceptual and methodological tools. In the light of previous research, we have first attempted to redefine the concept of explicitation in order to determine the distinctive features of this strategy as well as its theoretical foundations. Then, we have focused on the analysis of about 5000 examples of explicitation from MD in their context. Through the discursive analysis of the reasons why the translators of MD decided to apply explicitation, we have identified five main issues that justify the strategy and six techniques by which the translators apply it to Arabic texts. Finally, five translational maxims are proposed that optimize the application of explicitation so as to enable readers in the target language easy access to the meaning of the source text. Our conclusion is that when the explicitation strategy is applied in this way, the result is similar to marquetry with supplementary, but above all strictly relevant information inlaid into the text. It is all about ‘common sense’.

Cette thèse se propose d’explorer le phénomène de l’explicitation en traduction et d’observer la mise en œuvre de la stratégie d’explicitation dans un grand corpus composé de traductions en arabe du Monde Diplomatique (MD) durant la période 2001-2011. Elle s’articule autour de cinq questions centrales : Qu’est-ce que l’explicitation ? Qu’est-ce qu’on explicite ? Pourquoi ? Pour qui ? Comment ? Pour mener à bien cette investigation, nous avons élaboré un appareillage conceptuel dont la Théorie Interprétative de la Traduction (TIT) constitue le socle et auquel les autres approches traductives ont apporté des outils conceptuels et méthodologiques complémentaires. A la lumière des travaux antérieurs, nous avons d’abord tenté de redéfinir le concept de l’explicitation afin de déterminer les caractéristiques de cette stratégie ainsi que ses fondements théoriques. Ensuite, nous nous sommes penché sur l'analyse du corpus du MD composé d’environ 5000 exemples d’explicitation en contexte. Grâce à l'analyse discursive des décisions d’explicitation prises par les traducteurs du MD, nous avons pu dégager cinq problématiques principales qui suscitaient leur intervention et six techniques par le biais desquelles ils mettaient en œuvre les explicitations dans les textes arabes. Enfin, nous proposons cinq maximes susceptibles d’optimiser l’application de cette stratégie de sorte à permettre aux lecteurs cibles d’accéder aisément au sens des textes sources. L’explicitation devient pour nous un travail de marqueterie qui consiste à insérer dans le fil du texte des suppléments informationnels pertinents, mais surtout limités au strict nécessaire. Tout est question de « bon sens ». / The present thesis explores the concept of explicitation in translation and the implementation of this strategy on a large corpus of Arabic translations of “Le Monde Diplomatique” (MD) from 2001 to 2011. The argument revolves around five central questions: What is explicitation? What is explicitated? Why? For whom? and How? To carry out this investigation, a conceptual framework was developed of which The Interpretive Theory of Translation (TIT) forms the basis, with other translational approaches contributing additional conceptual and methodological tools. In the light of previous research, we have first attempted to redefine the concept of explicitation in order to determine the distinctive features of this strategy as well as its theoretical foundations. Then, we have focused on the analysis of about 5000 examples of explicitation from MD in their context. Through the discursive analysis of the reasons why the translators of MD decided to apply explicitation, we have identified five main issues that justify the strategy and six techniques by which the translators apply it to Arabic texts. Finally, five translational maxims are proposed that optimize the application of explicitation so as to enable readers in the target language easy access to the meaning of the source text. Our conclusion is that when the explicitation strategy is applied in this way, the result is similar to marquetry with supplementary, but above all strictly relevant information inlaid into the text. It is all about ‘common sense’.

(in English): The work in this diploma contains the special syntactic structural features of Russian and Czech historical and political science texts. The author of the work takes as a theoretical starting point the principle that Russian scientific texts use more condensed forms of expression than Czech scientific texts, and uses evidence in this diploma to verify the truth of this principle. Quantitative research was carried out to test this theory via examination of Czech and Russian historical and political science texts in both original and translated forms. The original criteria for the choice of texts used was thematic closeness, time period of text creation and a minimum length of 5,000 words. This criteria was later expanded to 7,000 words for original texts and 9,000 words for original texts and their translations. In addition to this a translation analysis was carried out concerning condensation devices, expression dynamics and the implicitness and explicitness of the text. The contrastive analysis of applied condensation devices of Czech and Russian texts adheres to the classification framework of Czech linguist Milan Jelinek. The results of the author's analysis confirm that Russian political science and historical texts reach higher predicative tightness of expression and use more...

This diploma thesis deals with explicitness and semantic explicitations in translation. Its goal is to confirm or disprove the explicitation hypothesis of S. Blum-Kulka, according to which translated texts are more explicit than their originals, regardless of the language of translation. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of explicitness and explicitation, presents explicitation from the point of view of terminology, translation universals, the cognitive process of translating and the contribution of corpus linguistics to the research of different forms of explicitation. The theoretical part also contains division of explicitation into different types and its classification among other translation procedures. The empirical part is based on a detailed analysis of excerpts obtained from French and Czech belletristic originals and their translations through which the semantic explicitations are researched. The analysis is concluded by a summary of all obtained results and by their confrontation with the explicitation hypothesis.

Reading comprehension as a prerequisite for successful strategy of word problems solving in mathematics DISSERTATION Mgr. Alena Sigmundová ABSTRACT The dissertation describes the results of an interdisciplinary research study examining the linguistic aspects of word problems in mathematics and the connection between comprehension of the text of word problems and the success of their solution. In the introduction the research is set into the framework of theoretical bases: the term word problem in mathematics and the concept of reading comprehension, including factors influencing the understanding of the text are characterized and the results of previous research studies are described. Subsequently the work presents a methodology, course and results of testing of pupils in three pilot studies and in the main survey and the conclusions from the semi-structured interviews. The research is based on the linguistic analysis of 18 word problems with low solution success, taken from international research surveys PISA 2012 and TIMSS 2007, as well as on the level of comprehension of the text of these tasks in the 8th and 9th grade primary schools, modifying selected language phenomena and detecting the effect of these reformulations. 773 pupils from 13 elementary schools participated in the research. The study...