Plagiarism as a form of intersemiotic translation

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2025

Authors

Pires, Helena (Author) Other; Sousa-Silva, Rui (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Translating human inner life in and between the arts: a semiotic approach to the emotions and the process of translation

Pages: 231-260

ISBN: 978-1-3504-5325-8 (hardback)

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-3504-5326-5 (epdf)

Publisher: Bloomsbury

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DOI: 10.5040/9781350453289.0020

Abstract (EN): Plagiarism has recently attracted the attention of the general public, in no small part due to high-profile cases involving, among others, politicians (such as former German ministers of defense and education, who were accused of substantially plagiarizing in their PhD theses) and journalists (such as the former columnist of The Independent, Johann Hari, or Jayson Blair, who were found to have lifted text from other news pieces). Instances of plagiarism of this type, which involve written text, are the most evident form of this kind of practice, in both academic and non-academic contexts. However, plagiarism is not limited to written texts and can involve other modes of production. (...)

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific