Lois de l'imitation; lois de traduction. Quel statut pour le traduteur?

Imitation and “translation act” are homologous to a certain extent. They
sometimes refer to the creation act, some other times to the act of
obediently copying. Imitation is even considered in translation studies as
referring to “literalness” as well as to “literariness”. Such inconsistency in
the metalanguage of a discipline like translation studies puts it at a
disadvantage in its quest for scientificity.
Thus, away from demarcating the concepts of imitation and translation,
I will address this confusion between “literalness and literariness” as a
fountainhead to analyzing the status of the translator, who wobbles
between imitator-replicator and imitator-creator, through the presentation
of areas of overlapping that imitation and translation can have, and where
the concept “act of translating” in translation studies, converge with the
two extra-logical laws of imitation postulated by the social psychologist,
Gabriel Tarde.
To this end, I confront the concept of imitation and translation in
eminent works in translation studies, in order to identify their
terminological parameters, and to set out the conceptual similarities
between this field and social psychology.
In conclusion, I present the analogy between translation and imitation
as creation, supporting this thesis with a terrtium comparationis : the
results of neuroscientists postulating a common neural structure that is
activated during imitation and the language act.