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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 23–29

Complexity in translation studies

| University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
Article outline
  • 1.Complexity thinking: a meta-theoretical position
  • 2.The characteristics of complex systems
  • 3.Emergence
  • 4.Complexity thinking in translation studies
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.comp4
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Further essential reading

Coveney, Peter, and Roger Highfield
1995 Frontiers Of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World. New York: Fawcett Columbine.Google Scholar
Mitchell, Melanie
2009 Complexity: A Guided Tour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Taylor, Mark C.
2001 The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Waldrop, Mitchell M.
1992 Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. London: Viking.Google Scholar