IS RELEVANCE THEORY APPLICABLE TO PROVERBS' TRANSLATION?

Romania, ID CLEaR2015-249;
Translation, viewed as a multi-faceted task, can arise different types of difficulties.
Proverbs have been considered special patterns, displaying sometimes hidden meaning or suggesting morals issuing from a particular example. These paremic units - the proverbs - conveyed feelings, states of mind, behaviour or ''metaphorical descriptions of certain situations''(Krikmann).
Starting from Savory's list of pair-wise contradictory translation principles. I intend to prove that the link between different ''forms''and
their ''contents'' lies in the principle of relevance, when referring to proverbs. Even if relevance theory is not a theory of linguistic structure - and many translation problems imply structural mismatches - relevance theory offers insights about contextual information. My analysis will target the ethofields of ''to buy'' and ''to sell'' in Englsh proverbs and their Romanian corresponding versions.