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dc.contributor.authorRoth, Wolff-Michael
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:15:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:15:52Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-07-07T22:14:46Z
dc.identifier.issn14385627
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/60727
dc.description.abstractIn an increasingly globalized world of research, communicating with scholars in the same language and culture and with scholars from other cultures and linguistic background is a sine qua non in/of all sciences, including those using qualitative social research. The nature of language is at least latently recognized especially by those scholars who communicate with their peers in a non-native language, such as English, which has become de facto the scientific lingua franca. Although many are aware of the difficulties of rendering something a scholar wants to say in another language, the nature of language as a non-self-identical process is hardly if ever articulated. Instead, the metaphysical idea of the same "meanings" that can be rendered in multiple languages by means of translation-literally, "carried across"-is endemic to the scientific culture. In the very definition of science (e.g., in the description of research methods), experiments must operate the same (must be reproducible) wherever and by whomever these are conducted. In this contribution to the debate concerning translation, conducted in the context of the FQS debate "Quality of Qualitative Research," I articulate theoretical and pragmatic dimensions on the topic, drawing on empirical investigations, literary works, and philosophical investigations to explicate how translation is both theoretically impossible and pervasively achieved in/as everyday praxis.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFreie Universitaet Berlin * Institut fuer Qualitative Forschung
dc.publisher.placeGermany
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1986/3534
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom13-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto13-24
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalForum Qualitative Social Research : Sozialforschung
dc.relation.ispartofvolume14
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchComparative and Cross-Cultural Education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130302
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.titleTranslation in Qualitative Social Research: The Possible Impossible
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2013
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gro.griffith.authorRoth, Michael


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