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Publication details [#12772]
Hoskin, Keith. 2004. Contact situations and barriers to intercultural communication: alphabetic writing systems and translation. In Kittel, Harald, Armin Paul Frank, Norbert Greiner, Theo Hermans, Werner Koller, José Lambert and Fritz Paul, eds. Übersetzung, translation, traduction (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 26/1). Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 38–41.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
The invention of the alphabet marks a transformative moment is what is thinkable as translation, with the emergence of the first potential mirror-writing. The article discusses the different ways in which translation as mirroring has been undertaken, from ancient Greece tot he post-alphabetic era.
Source : A. Matthyssen