Popular or prestigious? – A study of hierarchies and what is translated, directly and indirectly, into Swedish 2000–2015.

Many novels are translated into Swedish from the other Nordic languages. In the past, Nordic languages were also sometimes used as mediating languages (ML) for indirect translation (ITr), (Ringmar, n.d., 2008a, p. 174), but this is no longer the case. To better understand this change and ITr, this a...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 803 - 822
Autor principal: Allwood, Anja
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2023
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        Translating & interpreting
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