Translation and Personality. Multifaces of Personality in Translation
Translation and Personality. Multifaces of Personality in Translation

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at explaining the translation process through a psychological perspective, the Cultural Frame Switching paradigm. Psychological studies concerned with the Cultural Frame Switching have proven that bilingualism and multilingualism favour the manifestation of different personalities of the same person, i.e. speaking different languages will lead to displaying different personalities, as a result of the cultural influences acting upon us. Along this line of research, one can expect that a translator’s personality changes with the language switch. Translation thus becomes a double metamorphosis, a linguistic one, from one language to another and a psychological one, from one personality to another, and the translator, besides becoming a rewriter of the original text, is also a personality builder, internalizing different worldviews, specific to each language.

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