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“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was him, not her) task was to carefully demolish a building, a structure (the source text), carry the bricks somewhere else (into the target culture), and construct a new building - with the same bricks.”

Andrew Chesterman, Can Theory Help Translators?
tags: translation
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Can Theory Help Translators? (Translation Theories Explored) Can Theory Help Translators? by Andrew Chesterman
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