Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Description
An invited lecture for postgraduate students (online)
Faithfulness is one of the oldest and most widespread ideas about translation. Even though it is often invoked in popular discussions, it is increasingly problematized and avoided in translation studies. This lecture traced the conceptual underpinnings and historical development of the expectation of faithfulness in Western translation theory, points out the inadequacies and shortcomings of this notion, and suggested alternative ways of thinking about that most important translation quality.
