Chapter published in:
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 19–38

Chapter 1.1
Concepts of translation

Keywords: conceptualisation, difference, Eurocentrism, internationalisation, mediation, Sanskrit, similarity
Article outline
  • 1.Variability and historicity of concepts
  • 2.From East to West, a range of concepts
    • 2.1In Asia
    • 2.2In the Arabo-Persian world and in Turkey
    • 2.3In the Western part of the globe
  • 3.Emerging patterns?
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 28 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.142.02gam
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