self-translation
Sign in to saveSelf-translation is a translation of a source text into a target text by the writer of the source text. Self-translation occurs in various writing situations. Since research on self-translation largely focuses on literary self-translation, this article will tend to have a similar focus.
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- Research
- Types of self-translation
- Factors that encourage self-translation
- Self-translation versus non-authorial translation
- History
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- Africa
- Canada
- China
- France
- India
- Italy
- Nepal
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States
- In music
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- Non-literary self-translation
- Literary self-translation
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Self-translation is a translation of a source text into a target text by the writer of the source text. Self-translation occurs in various writing situations. Since research on self-translation largely focuses on literary self-translation, this article will tend to have a similar focus.
The practice of self-translation has attracted critical attention especially since the beginning of this century, in the wake of intensive investigation into the field of non-authorial translation in the twentieth century. Literary self-translation has been recognized as a special branch of translation studies at least since the publication of the first edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies in 1998.