Book review
Nike K. Pokorn. Challenging the traditional axioms: Translation into a non-mother tongue
Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. xii + 163 pp. ISBN 90 272 16881 € 95.00. (Benjamins Translation Library, 62).

Reviewed by Barbara Blackwell Gülen
Ankara
Table of contents

This book, based on a prize-winning doctoral dissertation, questions the “hidden traditional conviction of the necessity to translate into one’s mother tongue” (p. 30) and attempts to answer four questions:

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