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Science of Translation

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The science of translation has deep roots in translation attempts back to early times of humankind. Very recently it developed into many branches. Growing computational translation addresses the use of new media for translation attempts. Translation as such is an intuitive and nonempiric approach. Translation theory is focusing on communication in general and the speech act in particular. “Text” becomes a metaphor for written, oral-aural, and thought realizations of human ideas. Professional training of translators as well as theories of translation and at least the ethics of translation are in focus. An additional paragraph is given to Translationese as one challenge of the science of translation.

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Werner, E. (2019). Science of Translation. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_105-1

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