--- title: "3 Lawrence Venuti Quotes - Famous Linguist" description: "American translator... | Lawrence Venuti is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b098/author-lawrence-venuti-81297.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Lawrence Venuti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b098/author-lawrence-venuti-81297.jpg) # Lawrence Venuti (1953) Linguist **3** quotes in **61** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Lawrence Venuti is a linguist. ## Quick Facts About Lawrence Venuti Born February 9, 1953 Profession Linguist ## About Lawrence Venuti American translator... \| Lawrence Venuti is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. ## Quotes by Lawrence Venuti > [Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-venuti/translation-is-a-form-of-passive-aggression-in-doing-it-a-writer/) Lawrence Venuti [Aggression](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aggression/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/lawrence-venuti-81297_aggression_translation-is-a-form-of-passive-aggress_895266.png) > [Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-venuti/translation-rewrites-a-foreign-text-in-terms-that-are-intelligible/) Lawrence Venuti [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/lawrence-venuti-81297_books_translation-rewrites-a-foreign-text-in-t_1245151.jpg) > [General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-venuti/general-editors-preface-the-growth-of-translation-studies-as-a/) Lawrence Venuti [Anthropology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anthropology/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de0/lawrence-venuti-81297_anthropology_general-editors-preface-the-growth-of-tr_1346259.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-venuti/#itemlist", "name": "Lawrence Venuti Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Translation is a form of passive aggression. 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