Which statement best distinguishes canon formation from simple popularity?

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Which statement best explains thick translation?

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A translator is working on a postcolonial novel for an international audience. The publisher wants it to sound globally fluent; the translator wants to preserve opacity, local rhythm, and culturally dense references. The final version remains readable but keeps some friction and explanatory paratext.

Which conclusion best synthesizes the Unit’s logic?

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A publishing house commissions a translation of a controversial memoir but asks the translator to tone down explicit references to state violence so the book can be adopted in schools.

Which interpretation is strongest?

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Which statement best defines symbolic power in the context of language hierarchy?

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A literary text from a colonized culture is translated into a dominant world language. The translator keeps some culturally dense terms, explains others in paratext, and resists replacing the text’s rhetorical difficulty with smooth global prose.

What is the strongest interpretation of this strategy?

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A city issues public health notices only in the dominant national language, then later adds brief translated summaries for minority-language communities.

What is the most accurate reading?

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Which statement best explains why translation helps construct cultural difference?

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A translator renders a novel by a little-known writer from a minoritized language into polished, highly fluent English. Reviewers praise the translation because it “reads as if originally written in English,” but many culture-specific rhetorical features disappear.

What is the most accurate interpretation of this outcome?

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Which TWO statements best reflect the Unit’s treatment of hybridity and third space?

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