Foreignist

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who favors what is foreign.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Favoring the foreign.

    "foreignist translation theory"

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"Identifying E4 as the ideal ‘foreignizing’ translation and E11 as the ideal ‘domesticating’ translation, for example, the foreignist theorist can then proceed to build an entire bivalent model for the limits of translation[…]."

Etymology

From foreign + -ist.

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