nam a22 c 4500 btl.62/619006699 nljbp 250625023832.0 cr ||||||||||| 221208s2005 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2005042120 9789027294531 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P306 418/.02 22 CFP bicssc LAN023000 bisacsh Pokorn, Nike K. author Challenging the Traditional Axioms Translation into a non-mother tongue Nike K. Pokorn Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 ©2005 1 online resource (xii, 163 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamins Translation Library 0929-7316 62 Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Open definitions of the terms “native speakers” and “mother tongue” -- Translation into a non-mother tongue in translation theory -- Methods and corpus for analysis -- Analysis of the texts -- Analysis of the texts -- Conclusion of the analysis -- Native speaker intuitions -- Conclusion Translation into a non-mother tongue or inverse translation, especially of literary texts, has always been frowned upon within Translation Studies in Western cultures and regarded by literary scholars and linguists as an activity of dubious worth, doomed to fail. The study, which received an award from EST in 2001, sets out to challenge the established view and to critically question some of the axiomatic assumptions of Western theorists. Its challenge is supported by extensive empirical research involving reader response to translations of specific literary texts. The conclusion reached is that the quality of the translation, its fluency and acceptability in the target language environment depend primarily on the as yet undetermined individual abilities of the particular translator, his/her translation strategy and knowledge of the source and target cultures, and not on his/her mother tongue or the direction in which s/he is translating. Provided by publisher. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Translation Studies Pokorn, Nike K. author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 9789027216687 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.62 Open Access https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027294531