Translation Venuti Quotes

Like Lawrence Venuti’s (1998; 2008) foreignization, the goal of translational mimesis is not to imitate the other language, but rather to disrupt the illusion of direct access and to highlight the translatorial intervention through the mixing of different codes (see further Boase-Beier 2006:68–69 on Venuti’s foreignization and its “virtually non-mimetic view of style”). However, although translational mimesis does not aim to mimic the foreign language (i.e. the language as object), it nevertheless aims to represent the foreign language in the language as medium. In this aim to represent the foreign language (and the culture that is tied to this language) rather than the translational act as such lies a fundamental difference from foreignization. This difference can explain why translational mimesis and foreignization, although sharing many strategies such as the use of archaisms, the selective reproduction of foreign words or the transposing of foreign syntax, do not share others such