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Saraf, Babli Moitra. 2012. Translation-Transdiscipline? translation: a transdisciplinary journal 1.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
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No page numbers available.

Abstract

The note, ‘Translation: a new paradigm’, circulated by the editorial board of this journal as an introduction to the inaugural issue has been profoundly thought-provoking. Along with the bird’s-eye view of the terrain, it agonizes about an ‘epistemological crisis’ confronting the discipline of translation studies, laments the impasse within, and looks towards ‘startlingly new’ ways of defining translation. It candidly confesses to articulating the anxiety of scholars and practitioners of the discipline in ‘single nation states and linguistic limits’. This qualification is both timely and appropriate and may be among the factors that lie at the root of the crisis. One is therefore, also tempted to add — and scholarship which has been conditioned by the cultures of teleology and linearity within Judeo-Christian world-views.
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