translatability

Examples

• All

• It therefore buys into the trap of the translatability of text into image set by the Albertian historia that Michelangelo's image deconstructs.

  Academic text (2011)

• This easy translatability of Chinese sexuality becomes the most telling (mis)interpretation of cultures.

  Academic text (2009)

• These roots, in other words, are an index of a translatability that is fundamental to inculturation.

  Academic text (2002)

• Once again, I want to connect the translatability of culture in gendered bodily writing to the differences between performance and performativity.

  Academic text (2009)

• In contrast to Miranda, Xuxa's translatability makes her "just too weird to survive," as one Internet post put it (14 April 1994).

  Academic text (1998)

• This is not a question of translatability; of course it's possible to translate sentences like "Please pass the salt" into any language in the world; but of less tangible things, such as cultural ties, through language, to one's great-grandparents and to traditional ethnic ways of thinking about the world.

  Academic text (2007)

• The translatability of legal documents is essential to international agreements and treaties.

• She emphasized the importance of translatability in creating accessible educational materials for diverse learners.

Antonyms

U

untranslatability

• Formal

9.9

A situation when you cannot say an idea or word clearly in another language

How Translatable

translation

34 3.5

translatability

5.3

untranslatable

1 8.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology