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Publication details [#64568]
Yu, Hailing and Canzhong Wu. 2018. Attitude as mediation: Peritextual commentary in the translation of the Platform Sutra. Text & Talk 38 (5) : 633–654.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
As express attitude utterance is limited in canonical text translations, the peritext frequently grows a place for the translator’s attitudinal mediation. Placing the commentary under the name of the translator’s teacher acts to farther increase the attitude's mediating power.