Apurba Biswas

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Do you think academia, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, is a continuum of semantic tricks?

Every concept feels like its predecessors stated it more precisely, with successors just adding context. It's rewording, but the understanding stays the same. For example: Structuralism, as...

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Can the aims outlined by a translator in the preface be understood as Skopos?

Skopos theory, developed by Hans Vermeer, is a functionalist approach to translation that emphasizes the purpose (Skopos) of a translation as the primary factor guiding the translation process....

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