Talk:Lawrence Venuti

Schleiermacher
This article has a section on thought and influence, but it includes nothing on the thinkers whose thought influenced Venuti. At the very least there should be some mention of Friedrich Schleiermacher's 1813 lecture "Ueber die verschiedenen Methoden des Uebersezens" ("On the Different Methods of Translating"), which is generally recognized as the primary landmark in the intellectual tradition Venuti pursues; another is obviously Antoine Berman, who was also heavily influenced by Henri Meschonnic. The fact is, there are TWO dominant traditions in Western translation theory, one, which Venuti opposes, variously called "sense-for-sense translation" or "dynamic equivalence" (Nida) or "bringing the author to the reader" (Scheiermacher) or "fluency" or "domestication" (Venuti), the other, which Venuti champions, variously called "word-for-word translation" or "literalism" or "formal equivalence" (Nida) or "taking the reader to the author" (Schleiermacher) or "foreignization" (Venuti). The Schleiermacher/Berman/Venuti tradition introduces some important innovations to the literalist approach, and so has often been called neoliteralist; while literalism was dominant in some earlier periods, neoliteralism has mainly been oppositional for the last two centuries. But it IS an established tradition, and it seems myopic not to mention it here. The result of this article's silence about that countertradition is to make Venuti sound like a lone pioneer fighting an overwhelming orthodoxy.

Also, can we get a birth date? Hong12kong (talk) 23:11, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

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