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Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplinesEdited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Benjamins Translation Library 126] 2016
► pp. 23–48
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Benjamins Translation Library 126] 2016
► pp. 23–48
History and translation
The event of language
The purpose of this conversation is to reflect on the inter/trans-disciplinary
potential of translation as an object of historical research. This dialogue will be
based on our respective experience in doing historical research on translation;
in the case of Rundle from within translation studies and in the case of Rafael
from within history. These divisions between disciplinary fields are necessarily
foregrounded, given that the purpose of this collection is to focus on
trans-disciplinarity;
they are divisions that can stem from the actual department
scholars belong to, from the research and discourse that informs their
research, and from the academic community that they choose to address in
their publications.
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