Author: Anna Mauranen and Pekka Kujamäki

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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The present volume is a selection of articles from an international conferencewith the same topic as the book, “TranslationUniversals – Do They Exist?” held in Savonlinna, October 2001, on questions relating to translation universals. Despite the uniformfocus on the topic, it comprises a number of different approaches from theoretical discussion of the issues to empirical studies testiing some of the main hypotheses put forth so far. The research field is still very new, as empirical work only seriously began in the late nineties. Several papers discuss the established hypotheses on universals in the light of recent work in different languages, and some move on to test new hypotheses that have emerged out of the research carried out in the last two or three years. One of the central issues is the role of interference in relation to translation universals, and a number of suggestions are made as to its position, based on various empirical approaches. Most studies report work based on large translational corpora, which have begun to appear in many languages now, with applications to translator education also included. The papers cover a number of source and target languages, which makes a welcome change in the heavily English-dominated field.

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