source text

• Audio (Australia)

  (file)

source text (plural source texts)

1. (translation studies) The original text from which a translation is done into another language, often abbreviated as ST.
   • 2004, Christina Schäffner, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 119:

     [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.

• target text

• source language