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communicative translation: a standalone construct

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Translation studies

translation that tries to give its readers an effect as close as possible to that on readers of the original, favoring clarity in the target language.

In translation studies, communicative translation refers to translation that tries to give its readers an effect as close as possible to that on readers of the original, favoring clarity in the target language. This meaning comes from Newmark (1981) in Approaches to translation.[1]

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clarity3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs target4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs translation5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

Newmark, P. (1981). Approaches to translation. Phoenix ELT. ISBN 9780080246031

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