translatability love

translatability

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property of being translatable; able to be translated.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word translatability.

Examples

  • Publishers and patriots alike realized that Foxe's representation of the agonies of Protestant martyrs during the reign of Queen Mary had a certain translatability to contemporary British politics.

    The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

  • This assumes my clarity and near translatability, which is demonstrably not the case.

    By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog 2010

  • In light of the new Pentecost, Christians in general, and Anglicans in particular, are beginning to ask ourselves: How much does the translatability of the Gospel and the missiological imperative of inculturation inform our worship and common life as Christians today?

    2010 January « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • This new and trail blazing package scores highest for its look and feel, features, and ‘translatability’.

    Web Translations » Blog Archive » eCommerce wars: Magento vs osCommerce 2009

  • In light of the new Pentecost, Christians in general, and Anglicans in particular, are beginning to ask ourselves: How much does the translatability of the Gospel and the missiological imperative of inculturation inform our worship and common life as Christians today?

    A shake-up is coming to the Diocese of Montreal « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • Secularist positions are cast as sectarian; multi-culturalism is hard to defend from charges of ignoring the claims to singularity that seem necessary to the identity of its main players; language-games of different cultures multiply at the expense of their translatability into what is pejoratively described as a master-discourse.

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • In other words, philosophy's delegation of its authority to other discourses, to dialogue, is like the translatability of secular values into non-secular discourses.

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • Kuhn soon backtracked from the multidimensional conception of incommensurability in Structure, which (in some key passages, although perhaps not others) equated commensurability with translatability and, in turn, with communicability.

    Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009

  • That is, to test the limits of translatability, and as you get to the limits of translatability, you also see how and perhaps why cultures are different ...

    An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

  • If we deny translatability then we can grant the invariance principle, and grant the judgements of distance in both cases, but remain untroubled.

    Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.