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look of recognition

French translation: cette impression de familiarité

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English term or phrase:look of recognition
French translation:cette impression de familiarité
Entered by: Daniel Bouchard

14:32 May 12, 2011
English to French translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: look of recognition
"Memoryscapes of Postwar British Columbia: A Look of Recognition"
"I wonder if many Nisei would be able to return the Indigenous look of recognition—to acknowledge what Indigenous people saw in them, as if it was something Japanese Canadians themselves have been unable to fully face..."

Thanks for the help!
Daniel Bouchard
Local time: 11:00
cette impression de familiarité
Explanation:
I think SafeTex's disagree is unwarranted - It is "recognition" as in "I know this, it looks familiar, it is my culture".
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FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 17:00
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MercFX
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Summary of answers provided
4cette impression de familiarité
FX Fraipont (X)
3 +1regard d'intelligence
Jocelyne Cuenin
3un air/une impression de déjà vu ou un air familier
Johanne Bouthillier
3une reconnaissance
Johanne Bouthillier
3un regard qui reconnaît
Marion Feildel (X)
3( capables de répondre) au regard reconnaissant que leur portaient les autochtones
Savvas SEIMANIDIS
1de se reconnaître en retour dans le regard de l'Autochtone
Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)


Discussion entries: 2





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
un air/une impression de déjà vu ou un air familier


Explanation:
suggestions


    Reference: http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCkQFjAA&...
Johanne Bouthillier
Canada
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  SafeTex: I'm not sure but I think that here 'recognition' may mean 'respect' as in 'in recognition his efforts, x was awarded a prize.
12 mins
  -> you may be right
agree  GILLES MEUNIER: une impression de déjà vu
36 mins
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
une reconnaissance


Explanation:
ou une impression de reconnaissance

Johanne Bouthillier
Canada
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: French
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cette impression de familiarité


Explanation:
I think SafeTex's disagree is unwarranted - It is "recognition" as in "I know this, it looks familiar, it is my culture".

FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 17:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 182
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MercFX
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
un regard qui reconnaît


Explanation:
reconnaître (v.)
1.admettre juridiquement l'existence, la réalité de qqch.
2.identifier une chose déjà connue.
(...)

Marion Feildel (X)
Türkiye
Local time: 18:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 39
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
regard d'intelligence


Explanation:
Il le regarde comme s'il retrouvait une vieille connaissance. Il lui adresse un regard perspicace, avisé, un regard empreint d'intuition, de quelque chose de tacite ...

C'est la manière dont je le comprends, ce qui m'amène à une traduction un peu littéraire à cause des autres contextes donnés dans la discussion.

un regard / d'intelligence -> mésintelligence (lit) (à cause de la phrase où l'on trouve recognition and misrecognition)
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un regard d'intelligence http://fr.thefreedictionary.com/mésintelligence
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1076784
et beaucoup d'explications par le cnrtl (voir lien ci-dessous)
II. − [Dans le cadre des relations d'entente s'établissant entre des pers. qui se connaissent et se comprennent (v. entendre II A 2 b)] Action de s'entendre, de se comprendre; résultat de cette action.
A. − Au sing., littér. ou vieilli. Entente tacite, connivence
Signe, regard, sourire d'intelligence. Signe, regard, sourire qui exprime l'entente tacite, la connivence existant entre des personnes, qui témoigne de leur intelligence-------
Au sing. [Le plus souvent accompagné d'un adj., en gén. de l'adj. bon] Entente, accord, harmonie. Personnes de bonne intelligence

Dans votre cas, cela semble être one-way, pas encore réciproque.


    Reference: http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/intelligence
Jocelyne Cuenin
Germany
Local time: 17:00
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mathilde Burgart
1 day 15 hrs
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
de se reconnaître en retour dans le regard de l'Autochtone


Explanation:
Ma simple suggestion.

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Note added at 21 hrs (2011-05-13 12:07:24 GMT)
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L'auteur par la suite explique très bien ce qu'il veut dire au fond, ce qui permet de laisser un certain flou poétique.

Anne-Marie Laliberté (X)
Local time: 11:00
Native speaker of: French
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2 days 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
( capables de répondre) au regard reconnaissant que leur portaient les autochtones


Explanation:
Proposition de traduction de la phrase complète :

" Je me demande combien, parmi les Nisei, seraient capables de répondre au regard reconnaissant que leur portaient les autochtones - de prendre conscience de ce que les autochtones percevaient en eux, comme s'il y avait quelque chose que les Canadiens d'origine japonaise, eux-mêmes, n'ont pas pu regarder vraiment en face... "

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Note added at 2 days3 hrs (2011-05-14 17:56:00 GMT)
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" Une âme humaine ne peut se reconnaître que dans le regard d'une autre "
Aristote, philosophe grec, IVe siècle avant J.C.

Savvas SEIMANIDIS
France
Local time: 17:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek, Native in FrenchFrench
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