The metalanguage of translation / edited by Yves Gambier, Luc van Doorslaer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How about meta?: an introduction / Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer -- Defining patterns in Translation Studies: revisiting two classics of German Translationswissenschaft / Gernot Hebenstreit -- Risking conceptual maps: mapping as a keywords-related tool underlying the online Translation Studies Bibliography / Luc van Doorslaer -- Polysemy and synonymy: their management in Translation Studies dictionaries and in translator training: a case study / Leona Van Vaerenbergh -- The terminology of translation: epistemological, conceptual and intercultural problems and their social consequences / Josep Marco -- Natural and directional equivalence in theories of translation / Anthony Pym -- A literary work, Translation and original: a conceptual analysis within the philosophy of art and Translation Studies / Leena Laiho -- 'What's in a name?': On metalinguistic confusion in Translation Studies / Mary Snell-Hornby -- In defence of fuzziness / Nike K. Pokorn -- The metalanguage of localization: theory and practice / Iwona Mazur -- The metalanguage of translation: a Chinese perspective / Jun Tang -- Translation terminology and its offshoots / Yves Gambier -- Subject index.

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"Let the meta-discussion begin," James Holmes urged in 1972. Coming almost forty years later - years filled with fascinating and often unexpected developments in the interdiscipline of Translation Studies - this volume offers the reader a multiplicity of meta-perspectives, while also moving the discussion forward. Indeed, the (re)production and (re)use of metalinguistic metaphors frame and partly determine our views on research, so such a discussion is vital ℗Ưas it is in any scholarly discipline. Among other questions, the eleven contributors draw the reader's attention to the often puzzling v.

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