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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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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
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Waldrop, Mitchell M. 1992. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. London: Viking.Google Scholar