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Publication details [#4879]

Nord, Christiane. 2000. What do we know about the target-text receiver? In Beeby Lonsdale, Allison, Doris Ensinger and Marisa Presas, eds. Investigating translation (Benjamins Translation Library 32). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 195–212.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional translation | reader=target audience=listener=readership | target-oriented translation | text production=writing

Source language

Danish | French | German | Spanish

Abstract

In this paper, the author aims to make the distinction between the receiver and the addressee, the abstract notion the translator has of the receiver. The results of the studies she presents suggest that the sender-audience relationship is much more emphasized in Spanish and French texts than in German.

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