Translation history
He came out with a radical plan to translate the Bible into local languages
(the first language was German – translated by Martin Luther). This
inspired many other translators during that period.
• What happened in the 19th and 20th century in translation studies?
When and who created the term ‘translation studies’?
Translation Studies – James S. Holmes - 1972
Ferdinand de Saussure – Lived during the 19th and 20th century. He was
a Swiss linguist and a semiotician. He is widely considered one of the
fathers of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major fathers (together
with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics/semiology. Saussure's most
influential work, Course in General Linguistics (Cours de linguistique
générale), was published posthumously in 1916 by former students
Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye on the basis of notes taken from
Saussure's lectures in Geneva. The Course became one of the seminal
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