Les locutions verbales : techniques de traduction du français vers l’italien

Among the expressions figées that exist in French, the category that presents the greatest difficulties for translators from French to Italian is verbal idioms, both because of their frequency and their expressive charge. Starting with a corpus of verbal idioms from ten contemporary French texts, this study aims to verify which strategies were actually used to translate French idioms into Italian.

After defining the syntactic-semantic properties of verbal idiom in French, the study will present the four techniques used by the Italian translators of the ten texts: 1) the corresponding verbal idiom; 2) the semantic definition; 3) the calque; 4) the creation of a new verbal idiom.

Finally, in the last part, the two most important modes of défigement will be illustrated: wordplay and the use in the co-text of one of the terms of the idiom in its proper meaning.