Traduction technolectale en langues sénégalaises : comment se négocie la technicité du discours médical en jóola et wolof

The dissemination of knowledge has crucial implications for the empowerment of minority language populations. When it affects professional fields of activity, it enables speakers to make choices adapted to their specialised communication needs. In this respect, language, viewed from a translational perspective, is the main tool for achieving and measuring the effectiveness of communica tive performance. This is one of the preliminary observations that motivate a study on the translation of technolects into Senegalese languages. Considering that the technolect, by its nature and functions, calls for the use of the same translation methodology as in specialized translation, this study focuses on the way in which the transmission of technical information is negotiated in Jóola and Wolof. Using a bilingual corpus drawn from the medical text, we examine the translation choices made on the constituent elements of the technolectal discourse of this field to obtain a semantic equivalent. In the end, the study opens a reflection on the socioterminological dynamics of the two languages considered in a context marked by the constant diffusion of technical knowledge.