Is a 2nd translation (of the same book, novel) usually longer than the 1st ???

Hen Hanna <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:24:30 -0700 (PDT)

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(Les re-traducteurs  sont souvent plus verbeux que les traducteurs)

                Is this true ???

Is a 2nd translation (of the same book, novel)  usually longer than the 1st ???


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Chapter 1 Retranslation and Reception – a Theoretical ...
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..................    In this journal, Antoine Berman and Paul Bensimon proposed a concept that was subsequently redefined in 2002 by Andrew Chesterman as the Retranslation Hypothesis (RH). 

                     According to this hypothesis, the first translation of a literary text is notably more oriented towards the target language (domestication) whereas subsequent retranslations would tend to be nearer to the source text and language (foreignization).