| Status | 已發表Published |
| Translatability | |
| Sun, Y. | |
| 2017-08-01 | |
| Source Publication | The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation |
| Publication Place | London and New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 101-114 |
| Abstract | Translatability is as old as translation itself and also at the very foundation of the possibility of translation. The concept is a well trodden ground but still remains central to Translation Studies and beyond. Translatability is reputed to be haunted by the apparition of untranslatability, which stipulates and defines the limits of translatability. In practical terms, the main task for translators is to identity translatability and be aware of its limits and then develop appropriate strategies of what works best to expand such limits. Whether something can be translated or not depends on a host of factors, the most important of which is no doubt meanin g. But meaning in different cultural discourses is problematized. The act of translation entails the interpretation of meaning, which is then to be produced in the target language. One may argue that if something is interpretable, it is translatable. Howev er, to be sure, translation is much more complicated than transfer of meaning, and it is also concerned with transfer of form. Meanwhile, the question of the transferability needs to be explored because it is not something that can be taken for granted in relation to translatability. If translation is acknowledged as possible, translatability is inherently implied. |
| Keyword | Translatability |
| Language | 英語English |
| ISBN | 9781138938277 |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 45432 |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Sun, Y.. Translatability[M]. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, London and New York:Routledge, 2017, 101-114. |
| APA | Sun, Y..(2017). Translatability. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, 101-114. |
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