Strategies of Translation

• Authors: Dagmara Płońska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is concerned with the strategies of written translation. The first section deals with various definitions of the notion of translation strategy, terms used to describe that notion and classifications of translation strategies. The second section presents the results of some empirical studies on translation strategies. In the third section, Krzysztof Hejwowski’s concept of translation strategies is laid out and the results of a pilot study based on this concept are described

Keywords

EN

translation; translation process; translation strategy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 67-74

Dates

published

2014-05-01

online

2014-05-02

Contributors

author

Dagmara Płońska

• Faculty of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2014-0005