DEVERBALIZATION AND CREATIVITY IN PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION / INTERPRETING
DEVERBALIZATION AND CREATIVITY IN PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION / INTERPRETING

Summary/Abstract: The study approaches the concept of deverbalization, proposed by the Interpretive Theory of Translation as an essential bridge to creativity. Rather than simply swapping words between languages (which often leads to robotic phrasing or calques), deverbalization involves a multi-step cognitive journey, allowing both interpreters and translators to engage in creative reformulation and enabling them to produce natural, culturally accurate translations rather than rigid, literal ones. Although we cannot equate the act of translating with creativity, translation is not only transcoding. As the ITT suggests, the meaning is found beyond words, in a “deverbalized” state, in the retention of the mental representation of the message. A number of factors influence the translation process in which not only the translator/ interpreter is important but also the person they are addressing and the context in which communication takes place.

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