Each language entails a conceptually different world, so exact translation of conceptual structure between languages is impossible¶

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q2 i? Conceptual analysis of prepositions and equivalent words across languages shows that different languages determine different conceptualizations, making identical-structure translation impossible. → von Glasersfeld 1995

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von Glasersfeld 1995¶

von Glasersfeld, E. (1995). Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning. Falmer Press. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED381352

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Conceptual-analysis research on prepositions and equivalent vocabulary across English, Italian, German and Russian, conducted in the Milan machine-translation projects. The analyses showed "each language entails a conceptually different world"; practical overlap exists but speakers' worlds are conceptualized differently.

"each language entails a conceptually different world. Translation, in thesense of rendering in the second language the identical conceptual structure thatwas expressed in the first, was impossible, and our conceptual analyses demonstrated why."

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