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1、IrmeliHelinImplicationofEvidentialityinTranslationAbstractEvidentialityisagrammaticalandlexicalmeanstoexpressthatthesourceofinformationissomeoneelsethanthesenderofthemessage.Buthowdoesthetranslatordetecttheindirectinformationfromtheimplicationsofthesourcetextordoesheorsheevenaddthesekindsofimplicati
2、onstothetargettext?Atranslationisalwaysaninterpretationofwhathasbeensaidorwritten.Anyway,sinceatranslationcanalsobeunderstoodasanaidtofacilitatethecorrectinterpretationbythetargetaudience,aninterpretivesubjectivityisalwayspresentinreadingorlisteningtotranslatedtexts.Thispaperlooksatmethodsusedbytran
3、slatorsofGermantextsintoFinnishtotransferevidentialinformation.1.EvidentialityandevidentialsinGermanandFinnishInthispaperIwanttodiscussaninterestingphenomenonIhaveobservedwhencheckingthetranslationsofmystudentsattheDepartmentofTranslationStudiesinKouvolawhentheytranslatedGermanonlinenewstextsintoFin
4、nish.Itisafairlynewperspectiveinmyownresearch,whichconcernsevidentialityasagrammaticalandlexicalmeansforthespeakerorwritertoexpressthatthesourceofinformationissomeoneelsethanthesenderofthemessagehim/herself.TheusualassumptionisthatthereisnogrammaticalmeansintheFinnishlanguagetoexpressevidentiality(H
5、elin2004:13,14),except,maybe,thepotential,andinanycasethismoodhasothermodalfunctionsaswell.Itcanalsobeusedbythespeakertoexpressthatheorsheassumesthatacertainfactistrue,notonlyornotatalltoimplythattheinformationhasbeenforwardedbysomeoneelsethanthespeaker.AManofMeasureFestschriftinHonourofFredKarlsson
6、,pp.282–290IMPLICATIONOFEVIDENTIALITYINTRANSLATION283Briefly,apracticalmeansinGermantoexpressevidentialityistousethesubjunctiveinmainclauses.Itisaformofindirectspeech,whichoftenleavestheoriginalspeakerunknown.Atthebeginningofthelastcentury,Germangrammariansexpectedthismoodtoperish,butcontrarytothisp
7、rediction,itseemstobebecomingmoreandmoreusualinmoderntexts,especiallyinnewspapertextsand,evenmoreinonlinetextspublishedbythenewspapers.Ontheotherhand,wemustmakeadifferencebetweenmoodasagrammaticalmean
