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Vol. 10:2 (2012) ► pp.35–60

The Issue of (un)Translatability Revisited

Theoretical and practical perspectives

| Universitat Jaume I |
Keywords: Translatability, relativism, universalism, translation difficulties, equivalence
Published online: 1 October 2012
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