Definition
A12: the frame “from which the translated work is communicated to its audience”, covering “who is saying it, to whom, from what position, in what social context, and with what attitude”. Three interdependent dimensions:
- interpretive frame: what the translator takes the original to be about;
- enunciative frame: who speaks, to whom, from what position and attitude;
- performative frame: what the utterance is doing.
“The delivery frame isn’t merely a stylistic wrapper around meaning. It’s partly constitutive of meaning.”
What became of it
At U8 the vocabulary moved to Austin and Goffman: illocutionary force for the performative frame, footing and stance for the enunciative one (A14). The three-way typology was not used again, and the split between interpreting the source and delivering the rendering has no named place in the manuscript. At A18 “frame” became a coordinate system (TERM-016).