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Publication details [#11921]
Viaggio, Sergio. 1991. Semantic and communicative translation: two approaches, one method. In Larson, Mildred L., ed. Translation: theory and practice, tension and interdependence (American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series 5). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 172–187. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Abstract
Peter Newmark denies the possibility of a science of translation and the existence of a single method of translating. This article argues against this vision. On the basis of a number of examples, the author endeavours to show that the method best applied in translating is - or should be - on and the same, regardless of whether, at the re-expression stage, the translator chooses to follow the semantic or communicative or literal or any other approach. The author also tries to prove that the method itself provides the criteria for giving partial or total preference to any specific approach or combination thereof.
Source : P. Van Mulken