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How translations function: Illusion and disillusion
Although Schleiermacherâs binary opposition has been present in Translation Studies for a long time, in some recent theoretical discussions, critics put emphasis on the way translations either represent or retransform the original rather than on whether they provide the actual access to âthe foreignâ. Translation has been, therefore, described in slightly different terms: of metaphor (substitution) in opposition to metonymy (contiguity) (Douglas 1991, Tymoczko 1999, Yao 2002, Hermans 2007, Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz 2013). This critical awareness does not reflect the way translations functionin the culture, i.e. they are usually made and read as substitutes for their originals. As a consequence of that, a different distinction will be reminded and discussed, i.e. JiĆĂ LevĂœâs illusionist and anti-illusionist methods of translating, placing Schleiermacherâs and Venutiâs âforeignizationsâ among the anti-illusionist practices