Contributions de Christian Balliu dans la recherche en traduction médicale

Abstract

CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHRISTIAN BALLIU IN MEDICAL TRANSLATION RESEARCH Internationally renowned theorist in translation studies, Christian Balliu is the author of about 100 publications on the history and theories of translation. He is also a leading figure in medical translation and its didactics. Our article aims to illustrate his original, sometimes ironic, representation of medical texts to be translated. By reexamining the notion of medical text, the role of connotative and affective vocabulary, erroneous denominative values of terms and their denominative imprecision, the representation of the practitioner-patient relationship, Christian Balliu goes beyond the discursive and linguistic framework of the text. In his work, he extends his approach to medical translation to the social, economic, anthropological and historical dimensions in which the understanding of the hidden sides of the medical text remains a fundamental stage.

Keywords

• Christian Balliu
• medical translation
• medical text
• subjectivity
• patient depersonalisation