Translation as Reverse Engineering, Phase 1: Converting The Words in A Text Into Pictures in The Mind

Bell, Roger (2020) Translation as Reverse Engineering, Phase 1: Converting The Words in A Text Into Pictures in The Mind. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 September 2020, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Abstract

It has long been recognised that translation is a two phase input-output process - reading (deconstructing) and writing (reconstructing) - in which the “source text” is, in some way, reformulated as the “target text”: the translation. The problem lies in the “somehow” and it is the purpose of this p

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Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2026 13:41
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URI: http://eprints.eai.eu/id/eprint/31052

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