Anton Popovič [SEP] date of death
Anton Popovič
Anton Popovič (27 July 1933 – 24 June 1984) was a fundamental Slovak translation scientist and text theoretician.
Biography.
Popovič was born in Prešov, a city in Eastern Slovakia. He studied Slovak and Russian languages and, in 1956, completed his PhD in what is now Moravia, Czech Republic.
He belonged to the school of Nitra, having been associated with the Department of Literary Communication in Nitra (slovakia).
He was among the first to apply semiotic theory to the study
Linguistic Theory of Translation" : "Cultural untranslatability arises when a situational feature, functionally relevant for the source language text, is completely absent from the culture of which the TL is a part". For instance, the names of some institutions,
clothes, foods and abstract concepts, amongst others."
Anton Popovič also assumes that there is a difference between linguistic and cultural untranslatability, an idea that he defends in “A Dictionary for the Analysis of Literary Translation” : “A situation in which the linguistic elements