This paper discusses the problem of untranslatability between Chinese and English, including linguistic and cultural untranslatability. English belongs to the Indo-European language family, and Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The phonemic system, character structure and figure of speech are all completely different, and most of these in one language do not have equivalent i...

The remarks which follow are intended to address a certain apparent asymmetry as between German and Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Put most simply, it is clear to every philosopher moving backwards and forwards between the two languages that the translation of an Anglo-Saxophone philosophical text into German is in general a much easier task than is the translation of a German philosophical text into ...

What are called ‘natural languages’ artificial, often politically instituted and regulated, phenomena; a more accurate picture of speech practices around the globe is multidimensional continuum. This essay asks what implications this understanding language for translation, focuses on variety Afrikaans known as Kaaps, which has traditionally been treated dialect rather than in its own right. An ...