One Text as Another: Ireland Translated between Languages, Texts and Cultures.
The article discusses the context of the essay titled "On Language as Such and the Language of Man" by Walter Benjamin which focused on the transcoding model in translation theory. The author stated that translation is a controversial activity, stating its solitary and intrinsically social. The auth...
| Published in: | Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 377 - 387 |
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Edinburgh University Press
2013
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| Summary: | The article discusses the context of the essay titled "On Language as Such and the Language of Man" by Walter Benjamin which focused on the transcoding model in translation theory. The author stated that translation is a controversial activity, stating its solitary and intrinsically social. The author added that translation can serve as a paradigm for a phenomenon called linguistic hospitality in order to understand the translator's task. |
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