foreignizationn.
/ˌfɒrᵻnʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌfɒrn̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌfɔrənəˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌfɑrənəˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌfɔrəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌfɑrəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The state or condition of being or becoming foreignized; esp. the fact of being under the influence or control of a foreign country, organization, etc.
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1877 Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati) 26 Dec. 412/5 The city fight was Americans against foreignization.
1930 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) 5 Aug. The rapid foreignisation of Australia's sugar industry was in itself a justification for the inquiry ordered by the Federal Government.
1974 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 13 Feb. 32/6 This [act of Congress] is the earliest, almost imperceptible, movement towards the ‘foreignization’ of American labor laws.
2016 Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 28 June The intent was to set limits on the amount of agricultural land foreign investors can own as a way to contain growing resentment about ‘foreignization’.
2. The action of translating a text in such a way that its foreign character is retained. Also: the action of giving a foreign character to the language of a translated text, such that the reader is conscious that translation has occurred.
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1973 E. Boecker W. Faulkner's Later Novels in German i. 11 The translator must either ‘leave the author as undisturbed as possible and transport the reader to him’ (foreignization), or he must ‘leave the reader as undisturbed as possible and transport the author to him’ (naturalization).
2004 C. Ó Dochartaigh in H. Gaskill Reception of Ossian in Europe viii. 175 It reflects a concept of foreignization, where the reader is deliberately exposed to the idiom of another language.
2018 Atlantic Online (Nexis) 11 Nov. The question of how ‘foreign’ a translation should ‘feel’ provokes fierce disagreement... This is called the ‘foreignization vs. domestication’ debate.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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