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Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 265–278

Chapter 14
Determining a translator’s attitude

The test case of Wilhelm Adolf Lindau as a translator of Walter Scott’s novels

| Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Attitude
  • Decidability
  • Ambiguity
  • Undecidability
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 May 2021
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