Hypotheses about translation universals

Chesterman, Andrew

doi:10.1075/btl.50.02che

In:Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001
Edited by Gyde Hansen, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel Gile
[Benjamins Translation Library 50] 2004
► pp. 1–13

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Hypotheses about translation universals

Andrew Chesterman

Published online: 28 May 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.50.02che

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