الترجمة والأرطوفونيا: أو عندما تتلاقح الاختصاصات

Abstract EN

Speech therapy has long been linked with persons suffering mental disabilities or even the deaf and the dumb.

until recently, it has swayed between medical sciences and language sciences.

it binds medicine, psychology, linguistics, sociology and pedagogy.

whereas in France and Europe it is considered a paramedical speciality, in Algeria it is a branch of psychology.

its main concern is to take in charge verbal or non-verbal communication disorders that may appear in some persons of different age groups.

the increasing number of persons affected by communication disorders in Arab countries in general and in Algeria in particular pushed this speciality to gain importance, relying on translation, because references in Arabic for this field of knowledge are very scarce.

the difficulties in translation for speech therapy emerge from the nature of the speciality itself.

the main research question is: how to figure out the notion of speech therapy terms, that which binds terms pertaining to medicine, psychology, pedagogy, linguistics and sociology? who is fit for translating these terms? the pivot of course is the translator, the mediator between the writer of the text i.e.

the speech therapist, and the recipient of this very text, who may be a specialist or simply a layman.

we will try, in this research paper, to detect the relationship between translation and speech therapy in Algeria, starting from studies undergone by a group of Algerian researchers, led by professor Nacera Zellal, seeking to make this speciality a science of its own.