Ernst-August Gutt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ernst-August Gutt plays a role.

Articles

As an instance of human communication, literary translation operates by certain laws and principles assumed to be built into our human make-up. These 'natural laws' of communication give rise to implicit information and are responsible for its special characteristics, such as graded strength of… read more
Gutt, Ernst-August 1990 A Theoretical Account of Translation - Without a Translation TheoryTarget 2:2, pp. 135–164 | Article
This paper argues that the phenomenon commonly referred to as "translation" can be accounted for naturally within the relevance theory of communication developed by Sperber and Wilson: there is no need for a distinct general theory of translation. Most kinds of translation can be analysed as… read more