Tenacious technophobes or nascent technophiles? A survey of the technological practices and needs of literary translators.
In a context of increasing investigation of technology use by translators of pragmatic texts, there appears to be an assumption that literary translation is a unique practice and that digital tools designed to improve the productivity of non-literary translators have few applications in the literary...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 238 - 253 |
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Apr2020
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