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Publication details [#8004]

Cortés Zaborras, Carmen. 2001. ¿El camino más largo? Alegato en favor de la etimología [The longest way? In defence of etymology]. In Morillas García, Esther and Jesús Álvarez Polo, eds. Las herramientas del traductor [The tools of the translator]. Málaga: Ediciones del Grupo de Investigación Traductología. pp. 41–60.

Publication type

Chapter in book

Publication language

Spanish

Keywords

comprehension=miscomprehension | historical approach=historiography=history | meaning=content | register

Abstract

The author argues that etymology can be of use for translators in order to understand the use of a word in a text, recodify it with a broader base, grasp different registers or discover connections with other expressions in the same language.

Source : BITRA/J. Franco