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culture-specific items: a standalone construct

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culture-specificitems1 CONSTRUCTCulture-specific itemsAIXELÁ · TRANSLATION STUDIES

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Translation studies

items in a source text whose function and connotations pose a translation problem because they have no counterpart or a different status in the target culture.

In translation studies, culture-specific items refers to items in a source text whose function and connotations pose a translation problem because they have no counterpart or a different status in the target culture. This meaning comes from Aixelá (1996) in Translation, Power, Subversion.[1]

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References

  1. Aixelá, J. F. (1996). Culture-specific items in translation. In R. Alvarez & M. C.-A. Vidal (Eds.), Translation, power, subversion (pp. 52-78). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.33169489.7

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