A Feminist Reinterpretation of Untranslatability
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Jing He, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China.
The translatability or the untranslatability among different languages and cultures has been a topic of perennial debate in the realm of translation studies and a dilemma obsessing linguists over the time. This paper attempts to reinterpret the notion of untranslatability from feminist perspectives, which might shed light on the relationship between the source text and the target text, translation criteria and the role of translator. While dissolving the binary oppositions behind untranslatability, the paper also explores the dialectic relationship between untranslatability and recreation in translation through case analysis of the translation of puns.
Untranslatability, Feminism, Translation, Pun
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