Justa Holz-Mänttäri (born 1936) is a German-born

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translation scholar. She developed the

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of Translatorial Action and the concept of "message carrier".

Works

* ''Translatorisches Handeln. Theorie und Methode''.Skopos and beyond - a critical study of functionalism
/ref> Annales Academiae Scientarum Fennicae. Ser. B 226. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1984. . * "Textdesign - verantwortlich und gehirngerecht". In: Holz-Mänttäri, Justa/ Nord, Christiane, eds.: ''Traducere Navem. Festschrift für Katharina Reiß zum 70. Geburtstag''. Tampereen yliopisto, Tampere 1993, pages 301–320. . * "Evolutionäre Translationstheorie". In: Rupert Riedl and Manuela Delpos, eds. ''Die Evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie im Spiegel del Wissenschaften''. Vienna: Wiener Universitätsverlag, 1996, reprinted in 2001 in ''TEXTconTEXT'' 15:2. 245–281.

References

1936 births Living people Finnish translators Translation scholars Finnish people of German descent {{Finland-translator-stub