Communication and Translation in Business
(field of studies: German Studies)

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⇑Communication and Translation in Business at UKEN

Field of studies: German Studies

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors." The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this article will not deal with that sense of the word.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (not all languages do) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages); under this distinction, translation can begin only after the appearance of writing within a language community.

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Business

All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.

Robert Heller, British management journalist and author. 'The Competitors', Chapter 10, The Decision makers (1989).

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Translation

I conceive it is a vulgar error in translating poets, to affect being fidus interpres... [for] poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum, there being certain graces and happinesses peculiar to every language, which give life and energy to the words... therefore if Virgil must needs speak English, it were fit he should speak not only as a man of this nation, but as [a] man of this age.

John Denham, The Destruction of Troy (1656), Preface.

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Translation

A good poet is no more like himself in a dull translation than his carcass would be to his living body.

John Dryden, Preface to Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (1685).

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