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Bassnett, Susan. 1998. When is a translation not a translation? In Bassnett, Susan and André Lefevere, eds. Constructing cultures: essays on literary translation (Topics in Translation 11). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp. 25–40.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

equivalence=non-equivalence | identity | pseudotranslation=pseudo-translation | self-translation=auto-translation

Abstract

This contribution questions the aprioristic notion of translation putting forward cases of pseudotranslation, self-translation, etc. The main idea is that we need to revise the classical notion of equivalence-cum- identity and that translation is much more complex than the popular and traditional ideas.

Source : Based on BITRA/ J. Franco