Retranslation

Kaisa KoskinenOuti Paloposki
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Retranslation (as a product) denotes a second or later translation of a single source text into the same target language. Retranslation (as a process) is thus prototypically a phenomenon that occurs over a period of time, but in practice, simultaneous or near-simultaneous translations also exist, making it sometimes hard or impossible to classify one as a first translation and the other as a second translation. Some scholars also discuss indirect or relay translations in the framework of retranslation, but this usage is likely to be more misleading than useful, and for the purposes of this article, we only refer to multiple translations into one language as retranslations.

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