explicitness implicitness translatology comparative linguistics

The paper discusses the problems of explicitness in the translation of specialised linguistic texts contrasting the French original with its Czech trnslation. To preserve the communicative value of the text anchored in a completely different cognitive and linguistic context, written in a different language and different cultural background, the translator has to take into consideration not only the polysystem of the target language but also the new communicative situation as a whole. To achieve this objective he often employs an explicit way of expression and explication. The author concentrates on defining explication within linguistics and on the contribution of contrastive stylistics to translation theory. In the translation theory it draws upon the theory presented by ESIT school in Paris represented by D. Seleskovitch and M. Lederer´research.