Translation ‘errors’

Gyde Hansen
Copenhagen Business School
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What is an error and what is a translation ‘error’? The term “error” usually means that something is wrong. In written texts – both in original texts and translated texts – errors can be classified as, for example, pragmatic, semantic, idiomatic, orthographic, linguistic or stylistic errors. But what is a ‘translation error’ – with focus on ‘translation’? If we define a translation as the production of a Target Text (TT) which is based on a Source Text (ST), a translation error arises from the existence of a relationship between two texts.

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