A Bilingual Encyclopaedia: The Translator’s Challenge

Nicholas Lorriman

Chapter 50 in Handbook of Top Management Teams, 2010, pp 434-439 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The translator’s challenge can be most simply situated at two levels: terminology and ideas. What does this word mean? What is the author trying to say? This means that the translator’s field of action has two major frontiers, structurally linked by grammar and syntax: the objective, lexical frontier, to a great extent accessible through reference documents, particularly dictionaries, and the subjective frontier of the ‘argument’, the author’s ideas, only fully accessible in the author’s mind! The task, as in the case of the present encyclopaedic survey, of translating a multiplicity of contributions to a general theme casts a significant light on this polarisation.

Keywords: Source Language; Sense Unit; Rhetorical Question; Upward Social Mobility; Experienced Translator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230305335_51

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