National Translator, Foreign Translator, and Collocational Treatment

The present study focuses on 3 “collocational problems” as suggested by Mona Baker (1993, pp. 56-61), namely “culture-specific collocations, marked collocations and unmarked collocations where there is a tension between accuracy and naturalness”, as well as on the way they are treated by two different groups of translators, namely “national translators” and “foreign translators” (Nida, 1975, p. 97). It studies, analyzes and discusses how the two groups of translators differ from each other in treating the collocational pitfalls, and whether their treatments are in line with the solutions suggested by Baker, or they opt for remedies beyond her defined boundaries.