Digital humanities and translation studies

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A useful starting point for an entry on digital humanities (DH) and Translation studies (TS) would naturally be a definition of DH, yet this has proved to be both elusive and hotly debated. DH is multifaceted, expanding quickly, and evolving constantly, meaning that a precise definition is difficult to pin down and risks becoming outdated. In Debates in the Digital Humanities, Klein and Gold (2016: np) allude to this challenge, noting that

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Further essential reading

Desjardins, Renée, Claire Larsonneur, and Philippe Lacour
(eds) 2021When Translation Goes Digital. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Sinner, Carsten, Christine Paasch-Kaiser, and Johannes Härtel
(eds) 2020Translation in the Digital Age. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Google Scholar