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Brave New Globalized World? Translation Studies and English as a Lingua Franca - Cairn.... - 1 views

  • Many specialists in foreign language learning and teaching have pointed to the important influence that the mother tongue can have.  [6][6] See, for example, Meunier & Granger (2008, 102); from... This will typically involve using “false friends” (actually used to mean at the present for example), or literally translating multi-word units. One also finds literal translations of idiomatic expressions, and incorrect assumptions about the transferability of cultural references. In such cases, the task of the translator is a daunting one, either because there is no means of knowing what the ELF user’s mother tongue is, or because the translator has no knowledge of that mother tongue and the cultural implicit on which it relies.
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    Metaphors we live by. 
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