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Article published In: The Metalanguage of Translation
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Target 19:2] 2007
► pp. 359–374

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The metalanguage of translation

A Chinese perspective

 | South China University of Technology
Published online: 18 January 2008
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This paper provides a brief introduction to the metalanguage of translation in China. It also gives an account of the recent domestic anxiety about the uncritical acceptance of Western metalanguages and the discontinuity of traditional metadiscourses. The author contends that mutual understanding between scholars from different academic backgrounds will contribute to a new global academic order that accommodates and incorporates local knowledge of different cultures and marginal metalanguages of various academic communities.
Résumé
Nous nous proposons d’introduire au métalangage de la traduction en Chine où s’est exprimée récemment une certaine appréhension vis-à-vis de l’acceptation non critique des métalangages occidentaux et de la discontinuité de nos métadiscours traditionnels. Nous soutenons que l’intercompréhension entre chercheurs de divers horizons peut contribuer à un nouvel ordre international savant qui concilierait et incorporerait connaissances spécifiques de différentes cultures et métalangages périphériques de différentes communautés de chercheurs.
Article outline
  • 1.Before the mid-1980s
  • 2.From the mid-1980s onwards
  • 3.Behind the paradigm shifts
  • 4.Local knowledge as a complementary supplement
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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