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Written vs Skopos - What's the difference?

written | skopos |

As an adjective written

is of, relating or characteristic of writing (ie, of that which has been written).

As a verb written

is .

As a noun skopos is

(skopos).

written

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
  • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
  • That was written.
  • Derived terms

    * unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

    Quotations

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    Antonyms

    * oral * verbal

    Derived terms

    * hand-written

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

    skopos

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (translation studies) The function of a written or spoken text, especially in the context of translating and interpreting.
  • * 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 68:
  • The topic of the novel is the typical way of life of the well-to-do British middle and upper classes, and the setting within the British culture is thus of great importance. The Skopos , to use Vermeer's term, is to translate the text as being firmly embedded within the British culture.
  • * 2005 , Andrew Chesterman, Training For The New Millennium , edited by Martha Tennent, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 196:
  • [A]s with the skopos approach, a translator can have some idea of the intended effect, and translate accordingly, i.e. in a maximally relevant way.

    Derived terms

    * Skopostheorie * Skopos theory

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