TY - JOUR T1 - Critical Approaches to the Notion of Translatability and Untranslatability of Texts in Translation Studies AU - , Moruwawon Babatunde Samuel AU - , Kolawole Diipo Samuel JO - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 375 EP - 379 PY - 2007 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1683-8831 DO - pjssci.2007.375.379 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2007.375.379 KW - Nation of translatability KW -translation studies KW -X-rays AB - This study X-rays the different approaches to the translatability and untranslatability of texts in translation studies. It analyses the views of scholars who adopted a universalist approach, such as Wills, the monadist and the deconstructionist stance such as Gentzler and Jacques Derrida, respectively. The study concludes that that nothing is lost is not a principle that could possibly survive in translation. ER -