Translation Universals: Do they exist?

Author: Anna Mauranen and Pekka Kujamäki
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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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.