In Pursuit of Genuine Chinese Equivalents: The Case of a Nineteenth-Century Dutch-Chinese Dictionary.
Despite the consensus among scholars that it is impossible for equivalence to have the same meaning in linguistics as it does in mathematics – it is impossible to have equivalents in translation – there is still merit in investigating bilingual dictionaries as they can help us understand the differe...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Lexicography Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 104 - 116 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2020
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