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Publication details [#9791]

Koller, Werner. 1993. Das Problem der Übersetzbarkeit [The problem of translatability]. In Králová, Jana and Zuzana Jettmarová, eds. Translation strategies and effects in cross-cultural value transfer and shifts. Special issue of Folia Translatologica. International Series of Translation Studies 3: 9–16.

Publication type

Article in Special issue

Publication language

German

Keywords

adequacy=inadequacy | equivalence=non-equivalence | meaning=content | translatability=untranslatability

Edition info

Special Issue.

Abstract

In this contribution the author examines the dichotomy of translatability: on the one hand translation is perceived as theoretically infeasible and practically feasible but on the other hand it is considered to be the exact opposite, i.e. theoretically feasible and practically infeasible. The author discusses several texts in order to address this issue.

Source : P. Van Mulken