Les dialectes ou la pensée de l’écart en traduction L’exemple italien

Considered a non-standard usage of a written language, diatopic variations in literature can appear to resist the translation process. This is due to there being a deviancy within the deviancy (Folkart, 1991, p. 177), which constitutes a double otherness. Italian heterolingual contemporary prose superimposes two linguistic codes – vernacular and koine – which means that the translator is required to deal with a double melody that is culturally and geographically specific.