Translation Studies – The State of the Art

Abstract

Translation has spoken with growing impact and urgency to mankind for more than two millennia. Not only has it facilitated the understanding of sociocultural structures, economico-political systems, and technological/technical processes; it has also pushed forward our knowledge of the world (including our awareness of “otherness”) and widened our (inter-) linguistic and (inter-)cultural horizon.La traduction est une nécessité première pour faire face à l’avenir et acquérir des connaissances nouvelles. Non seulement elle facilite la compréhension des structures socioculturelles, des systèmes économiques et politiques et de l’évolution technique et technologique, mais elle a aussi contribué à diffuser la connaissance du monde (incluant notre conscience de « l’Autre ») dans un ensemble d’interrelations sociales et culturelles et a élargi notre horizon (inter-)linguistique et (inter-)culturel

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