Book review
Fabio Alves, ed. Triangulating translation: Perspectives in process oriented research
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. x + 163 pp. ISBN 90-272-1651-7 (Eur.) € 85./ 1-58811-429-5 (US) $ 85. (Benjamins Translation Library, 45).

Reviewed by Riitta Jääskeläinen
Joensuu/Savonlinna
Table of contents

The volume contains seven articles based on conference papers presented in the Second Brazilian International Translators’ Forum “Translating the millennium: Corpora, cognition, and culture”. They deal with process-oriented translation research and combine different methods and vantage points. The unifying [ p. 162 ]theme is triangulation: the application of several methods of data collection and analysis to arrive at more reliable findings about translation processes.

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