Katharina Reiss
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Katharina Reiß German
linguist and translation scholar.
She is a defender of the skopos theory
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Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
linguist and translation scholar.
She is a defender of the skopos theory
Skopos theory
The skopos theory is a concept from the field of translation studies.It was established by the German linguist Hans Vermeer and comprises the idea that translating and interpreting should primarily take into account the function of both the source and target text.Skopos theory focuses on...
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Works
- Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übersetzungskritik. Munich, Hueber, 1971.
- (with Hans VermeerHans VermeerProf. Dr. h.c. Hans-Josef Vermeer , German linguist and translation scholar.He was appointed Professor of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Mainz in Germersheim . After that he held the chair of Translation Studies with special reference to Portuguese at Heidelberg University...
) Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie. Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1984.