Translationese - A myth or an empirical fact?: A study into the linguistic identifiability of translated language

Target

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-220

  Tirkkonen Condit, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Identifiability as translation; Linguistic features of translations; Translated language; Translation quality; Translationese; Unique items; Universals of translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750143170     PISSN: 09241884     EISSN: 15699986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/target.14.2.02tir     Document Type: Article

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