Conceptualisation indices in health and life sciences translation: An experientialist approach

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Publicado: dic 20, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.9
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conceptualisation index, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, fictive and factive representations, predicative and non-predicative units, quasi-predicative unit

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Sylvie Vandaele
Université de Montréal

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Conceptual metaphors, as theorized by George Lakoff, are essential to scientific and biomedical thought. They express themselves in speech through metaphorical expressions. Understanding conceptual metaphors is critical for translators. Several years ago we proposed the concept of conceptualization index, which is the linguistic element by which metaphor operates. This article begins with a description of the experiential framework used for a number of studies realized in biomedicine and life sciences. Then, the predicative, quasi-predictive, and non-predictive conceptualization indices are distinguished. Finally, the general principles deduced from the set of data are presented.

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Vandaele, S. (2018). Conceptualisation indices in health and life sciences translation: An experientialist approach. MonTI. Monografías De Traducción E Interpretación, (10), 225–256. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.9
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Núm. 10 (2018): Retos actuales y tendencias emergentes en traducción médica
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Sylvie Vandaele, Université de Montréal

Sylvie Vandaele has trained and has had a career in both life sciences (PhD in molecular pharmacology) and translation. She is presently a full professor at the Université de Montréal (Canada) where she has been teaching biomedical translation since 2000. As a certified translator and terminologist (Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec), she defends with conviction the importance of exchanges between academia and the professional world. She combines her research on metaphor and in history of life sciences (supported by the SSHRC, Canada) with a great interest for the pedagogy of translation as well as for teaching, for which she won an award for teaching excellence in 2004. From 2008 to 2014, she was the director of Meta. She has published extensively on different dimensions of biomedical discourse and terminology from synchronic and diachronic perspectives, including metaphorical conceptualization (see ). Her current projects focus on the relationship between translation and the history of science. The website provides fellow translators and researchers with the results of her work.

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