In the last 15 years, numerous LSP genres have been analyzed and compared intralingually as well as interlingually and interculturally. The results of these analyses, however, have hardly been related to each other and ...

The patron saint of translators – Saint Jerome (Eusebias Hieronymus Sophronius) – recommended that "a translator should lead an ascetic life and remain single, the actual job occupying so much of his time and attention ...

In this paper I would like to address some of the issues which impinge on our understanding of 'naturalness'. While on the one hand it has been associated negatively with cultural assimilation from a literary perspective, ...

Oversettelse av juridiske tekster er vanskelig, også for utdannede jurister. I motsetning til f.eks. teknisk eller medisinsk utdannelse, inneholder lærestoffet i juss svært lite stoff på fremmedspråk. Det utvikler seg ...

The last decades have witnessed the burgeoning of contextual cultural and cognitive issues in translation studies (TS). TS has come to realise that it shares much with experts in other fields of linguistic and extralinguistic ...

Translation Studies is a branch of memetics. This is a claim, a hypothesis. More specifically, it is an interpretive hypothesis: I claim that Translation Studies can be thus interpreted, and that this is a useful thing ...

Det er ikke uvanlig at det gjennom tidene skjer endringer i ordenes form og betydning. I denne artikkelen ska! vi se nrermere pa hvordan ord og uttrykks betydning kan endres som fulge av ekonomiske eller sosiale forandringer ...

Tallene lyver ikke". Tallene snakker for seg selv". Man "legger tallene på bordet". Klisjeene er mange og blir brukt for det de er verdt. Tall har generelt blitt oppfattet som nøytrale og objektive fakta.

The paper takes its point of departure in a scrutiny of the defining characteristics of LSP lexicography and tenninography, respectively, and of some of the claims made on behalf of either collapsing or distinguishing ...