Article published in:
Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 233–239

Translating social sciences

| University of Turku | Kaunas University of Technology
Article outline
  • 1.A domain scarcely studied
  • 2.The editorial conditions of the translations
  • 3.The discourse of the social sciences and functions of the translations
  • 4.Reception and effects of translations
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.tra21
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Further essential reading

Boaventura, de Sousa Santos
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