Article published In: Désir de traduire et légitimité du traducteur / New Drivers of Translation - a Challenge for Professional Translators:
Guest-edited by Nicolas Froeliger and Colette Laplace
[FORUM 10:1] 2012
► pp. 21–30
Désir de traduire et affirmation d’une profession
Les leçons de l’histoire
Article language: French
Published online: 1 April 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.10.1.02bal
https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.10.1.02bal
Abstract/Résumé
The history of translation shows us that the translator has always been on a quest for legitimacy and that he has been successful on many occasions. History teaches us that the lack of recognition from which the translator often suffers from today is not a legacy from the past and therefore not unavoidable.
