Traductrices, traducteurs : sommes-nous une frontière ? Sommes-nous une membrane ?
Translators: are we a border? Are we a membrane?

Author(s): Fabio Regattin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: translation;border;frontier;membrane;cultural Darwinism;systems theories;
Summary/Abstract: The conceptual metaphor that sees translation as “border crossing” is so widespread that nowadays it hardly appears as a metaphor: it has become a commonsensical notion. Our contribution tries to question it by exploring a number of interdisciplinary approaches, which draw parallels – more or less metaphorical ones – between culture and biology. We will analyze, within these different approaches, the notion of border/limit, in order to show an alternative that seems more apt to capture the complexity of translation – the notion of membrane.

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