undertranslation
English
editEtymology
editFrom under- + translation.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editundertranslation (plural undertranslations)
- the act or result of undertranslating
- 1974, American Translators Association, State University of New York at Binghamton. Translation Center, Translators and translating: selected essays from the American Translators Association summer workshops, 1974, page 69:
- An expression which lacks the proper specificity results in undertranslation; when the translator is too specific, on the other hand, overtranslation results.
- 1984, Multilingua, page 130:
- If mere identification does not suffice, transfer is restricted, thus indicating that a certain amount of information content is lost in transfer; in other words, undertranslation occurs.
- 2014, Michele H. Jones, The Beginning Translator’s Workbook: or the ABCs of French to English Translation, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 7:
- Overtranslation and undertranslation are standard translation mistakes resulting from improper T.U. delineation: