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Reflections on Translation Theory: Selected papers 1993 - 2014Andrew Chesterman
[Benjamins Translation Library 132] 2017
► pp. 195–199
This short paper outlines some research in logic and pragmatics that sheds interesting light on the concept of similarity. A recent proposal (Sovran 1992) suggests that there are two basic kinds of similarity: divergent and convergent. These seem to be directly relevant to how we conceptualize equivalence in Translation Studies and in Contrastive Analysis, respectively.