Challenging the traditional axioms : translation into a non-mother tongue /

Translation into a non-mother tongue or inverse translation, especially of literary texts, has always been frowned upon within Translation Studies in Western cultures and regarded by literary scholars and linguists as an activity of dubious worth, doomed to fail. The study, which received an award f...

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Main Author: Pokorn, Nike K. (Nike Kocijančič)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.
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ISBN:9789027294531
9027294534
9789027216687
9027216681
ISSN:0929-7316 ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Challenging the Traditional Axioms; Editorial page; Title page; Lcc data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Open definitions of the terms ``native speaker'' and ``mother tongue''; Translation into a non-mother tongue in translation theory; Method and corpus for analysis; Analysis of the texts; Analysis of the texts; Conclusion of the analysis; Native speaker intuitions; Conclusion; Appendix I. Questionnaire; Appendix Ii. Responses in the questionnaire; Notes; Bibliography; Index; The series Benjamins Translation Library.