Pensando a tradução com Saussure: uma outra consideração da sincronia e da diacronia

Abstract

Translation is an activity that sometimes implies matters relating to time, since the text to be translated may originate in a moment previous to the act of translation. This perspective is the basis for this study, which considers how the concepts of synchrony and diachrony, proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure, relate to the practice of translation. While the structuralist interpretation of Saussure often advocated a complete dissociation between these two notions, translation seems to indicate that diachrony and synchrony are closely and mutually related. Therefore, the translation phenomenon becomes a way of indicating that there is a need to take synchrony and diachrony into account jointly in some cases.