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Wildsmith-Cromarty, Rosemary. 2008. Can academic/scientific discourse really be translated across English and African languages? Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26 (1) : 147–169.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | language use | meaning | scientific language | translation

Language as a subject

English | isiZulu | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article discusses the translatability of academic/scientific discourse from English into an African language, in particular isiZulu, focusing on how translations affect the fundamental meaning of source texts. It is concluded that this process requires extended collaboration among curriculum designers, translators and teachers.