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On the Historicity of Translation in Gadamer's Philosophic Hermeneutics

Xiaoyan Li

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There is some relations in origin between translation and interpretation.Hermeneutics asserts that translation is interpretation.The historicity of understanding means that translation cannot be independent from its historic limitations.Gadamer's philosophic hermeneutics on research of historicity opens up a new scope for the research on translation theory.

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There is some relations in origin between translation and interpretation.Hermeneutics asserts that translation is interpretation.The historicity of understanding means that translation cannot be independent from its historic limitations.Gadamer's philosophic hermeneutics on research of historicity opens up a new scope for the research on translation theory.

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There is some relations in origin between translation and interpretation.Hermeneutics asserts that translation is interpretation.The historicity of understanding means that translation cannot be independent from its historic limitations.Gadamer's philosophic hermeneutics on research of historicity opens up a new scope for the research on translation theory.

Key concepts: Historicity (philosophy), Hermeneutics, Interpretation (philosophy), Philosophy, Epistemology, Translation (biology), Scope (computer science), Translation studies

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