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In:A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 19–38

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Chapter 1.1
Concepts of translation

Published online: 28 June 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Variability and historicity of concepts
  • 2.From East to West, a range of concepts
    • 2.1In Asia
    • 2.2In the Arabo-Persian world and in Turkey
    • 2.3In the Western part of the globe
  • 3.Emerging patterns?
  • Notes
  • References
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