overtranslation

English

Etymology

over- +‎ translation

Noun

overtranslation (countable and uncountable, plural overtranslations)

  1. The act of overtranslating.
    • 1995, Jean-Paul Vinay, Jean Darbelnet, Comparative Stylistics of French and English: A Methodology for Translation, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:
      Mistaking a servitude for an option can lead to overtranslation.
    • 2000, Hans Georg Gadamer, Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt, Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 73:
      One result of overtranslation is to render this development incoherent, trivial, or even imperceptible, since the development is already tacitly built into the translation from the beginning.
    • 2001, Sin-wai Chan, David E. Pollard, An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese, Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 716:
      The aim of this article is to illustrate the commonest forms of overtranslation through representative examples drawn from a variety of sources and source languages.
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