What is it about?
The article is about translating German philosophy, and a strategy for dealing with vocabulary that would sound highly metaphorical to a native speaker, but would lose this in a standard English translation. For example, Grund means "the ground" but it would normally be translated as "reason."
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Why is it important?
This is timely because it intervenes in debates about linguistic particularity (untranslatability), by showing that this is a force to be dealt with--but in a more practical, even prescriptive way than is usually comfortable within cultural studies.
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This is one of my favorite of my own pieces because it deals with a very specific problem in an almost forensic way, and it is the only piece of mine that works on a problem of comparative linguistics.
Spencer Hawkins
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This page is a summary of: Differential translation, Translation and Interpreting Studies, April 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/tis.12.1.06haw.
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