Competência tradutória: a conversão do tradutor em revisor

Abstract

Every professional knows there is not one single possibility for translating each one of the several translation units in a given text: until the moment of delivering the final text to the client, it will be selected various different solutions for the same unit in order to rank them and opting for one of them according to pre-established criteria. This assertion is also valid for the pedagogical work with translation learners. The teacher usually receives several alternatives for the same text. He/she needs to analyze how pertinent is each one of the choices made by the students, because this teacher knows that, although each translation derives from a given source text, they have their own identity, since they are the result of different levels of interpretation and different choices. This identity should be preserved when it comes to the revision of translated texts. However, the market (especially the publishing one) still considers the translator as a mediator whose text should be improved by the proofreader who is responsible for the final decision. Based on the notion of authorship in translation and on the concept of translation competence, this article aims to emphasize the importance for the translation to develop a specific sub-competence to revising translated texts.