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Is a 2nd translation (of the same book, novel) usually longer than the 1st ???

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Hen Hanna

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Mar 23, 2023, 5:24:31 PM3/23/23
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(Les re-traducteurs sont souvent plus verbeux que les traducteurs)

Is this true ???

Is a 2nd translation (of the same book, novel) usually longer than the 1st ???


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Chapter 1 Retranslation and Reception – a Theoretical ...
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.................. In this journal, Antoine Berman and Paul Bensimon proposed a concept that was subsequently redefined in 2002 by Andrew Chesterman as the Retranslation Hypothesis (RH).

According to this hypothesis, the first translation of a literary text is notably more oriented towards the target language (domestication) whereas subsequent retranslations would tend to be nearer to the source text and language (foreignization).
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