A literary translator adapts a novel set in 19th-century England for a contemporary teenage audience. Which outcome exemplifies domestication in translation?

💡 Explanation

Domestication seeks to make the text feel familiar to the target audience; because of this, cultural references are updated to resonate with contemporary teenagers, which is the cultural adaptation mechanism. Therefore, adapting cultural references is domestication, rather than preserving the original setting which would be foreignization.

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