Pojęcie transformacji przekładowych w kontekście statusu tłumacza

The role of a translator in the translation process was defined a long time ago, yet, it is not always clear that the relationships of translation equivalence are entirely translator-depended. This means that a translator not only applies already existing equivalence relationships (potential translation equivalence), but he also creates such. The concept of translation transformation, mostly encountered in works by Russian authors, is used relatively rarely; however, it may be applied to illustrate the way a translator creates relationships of translation equivalence. It is also an instrument used to explain the phenomenon of creativity in translation and individual aspects of translator's input. Descriptions of translation transformations, present in literature, in the author's opinion, require some improvement, particularly in relation to the classification of types of translation transformations. This paper presents a new proposal for such a classification.