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Reflections on Translation Theory: Selected papers 1993 - 2014Andrew Chesterman
[Benjamins Translation Library 132] 2017
► pp. 25–33
Translation Studies is sometimes taken to be an applied science, sometimes a hermeneutic discipline, and sometimes an empirical human science. Each of these views has a different idea of what would be understood as progress: different criteria. We do not have a shared paradigm in TS, but we might one day arrive at one by bringing together different kinds of explanation.