The translation of legal, administrative and political texts from French in to Italian during the Napoleonic period. The example of Milan and Genoa

该项目涉及拿破仑时期从法语到意大利语的法律、行政和政治文本的翻译。这些翻译将从语言学和翻译学的角度进行分析，是法国大革命时期实行的翻译政策的结果，这似乎与那个时期严格的单一语言政策相矛盾。所谓的三年制(1796-1797)见证了受法国影响的几个姐妹共和国的建立，这导致了越来越多的从法语到意大利语的官方翻译。这些译本还没有从语言学和翻译学的角度进行深入的研究。尤其缺乏对语言、翻译和法律之间相互依存关系的研究。这一计划意在填补这一缺口的一部分。重点将放在面向非专业公众的文本上，例如法律(包括法律和法典汇编)、法令、公告和政治演讲。从地理位置上讲，该项目涉及米兰和热那亚的情况。米兰在拿破仑时代的意大利有重要的作用：西萨尔卑斯山和意大利共和国的首都，后来是意大利拿破仑王国的首都。热那亚将被包括在内，因为利古里亚共和国是历史相对较长的姐妹共和国之一，其历史到目前为止还不经常被研究。该项目有以下目标：1.建立有关翻译的数据库(特别是尚未对书目进行分析的档案文本)2.描述语言翻译问题及其解决办法(在以下几个层面：词典/术语、句法、文本结构、修辞)。3.分析翻译对创建意大利语法律和行政语言的作用(关于研究期间前后的对比语料库)4.翻译政策的文件编制(关于官方翻译组织的文件分析)。

This project deals with translation of legal, administrative and political texts from French into Italian during the Napoleonic period. These translations, that will be analyzed from the perspectives of linguistics and translation studies, are a consequence of a translation policy which was implemented during the French Revolution and which seems to contradict the strictly monolingual language policy of that period. The so called triennio rivoluzionario (1796-1797) saw the foundation of a couple of sister-republics under French influence which caused a growing number of official translations from French to Italian. These translations have not yet been studied thoroughly from the perspective of linguistics and translation studies. There is especially a lack of studies focusing on the interdependence of language, translation and law. This projects intents to fill a part of this gap. The focus will be on texts directed to a non-specialized public, e.g. laws (incl. collections of laws and codes of law), decrees, announcements and political speeches. Geographically speaking, the project deals with the situation in Milan and Genoa. Milan had important functions in Napoleonic Italy: capital of the Cisalpine and the Italian Republic and later of Napoleons Kingdom of Italy. Genoa will be included since the Ligurian Republic was one of the relatively long living sister-republics whose history has not often been studied until now. The project has the following goals: 1. Creation of a database of the translation in question (especially of archival texts that have not yet analyzed bibliographically) 2. Description of linguistic translation problems and their solutions (on the following levels: lexicon/terminology, syntax, text structure, rhetoric). 3. Analysis of the role that the translations played for the creation of an Italian language of law and administration (with regard to contrastive corpora from before and after the studied period) 4. Documentation of the translation policy (analysis of documents dealing with the organization of official translations).