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A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
Edited by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier
[Benjamins Translation Library 142] 2018
► pp. 325–330

Chapter 5.7
Ethnography

Keywords: thick description, descriptive translation studies, cultural translation, auto-ethnography, thick translation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Ethnography and translation: Developments, borrowings and parallels
  • 3.Ethnographies of translation as such
  • 4.Ethnographies of Translation: Some open questions
  • References
  • Further reading
Published online: 28 June 2018
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Duranti, A.
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2008 “Cultural Translation: A Problematic Concept?” In Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury, ed. by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, and Daniel Simeoni, 221–232. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
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