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thick translation: a standalone construct

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Translation studies

translation that surrounds a text with annotations and glosses to place it in its rich cultural and linguistic context.

In translation studies, thick translation refers to translation that surrounds a text with annotations and glosses to place it in its rich cultural and linguistic context. This meaning comes from Appiah (1993) in Callaloo.[1]

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References

Appiah, K. A. (1993). Thick Translation. Callaloo, 16(4), 808. https://doi.org/10.2307/2932211

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