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Contra Instrumentalism

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Contra Instrumentalism

By Lawrence Venuti

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Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This "instrumental" model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be seen today in elite and popular cultures, in academic institutions and in publishing, in scholarly monographs and in literary journalism, in the most rarefied theoretical discourses and in the most comm...Show more

Philosophy of language

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9781496205131

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Contra Instrumentalism

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