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Metaphors play an important role in structuring our concepts and theories. We study here the implicit theories used by translation students when talking and writing about translation, and we do it by investigating the metaphors found in the students' discourses about translation.

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Why is it important?

We are normally not aware of our implicit theories, but they influence the way we think and act,

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This page is a summary of: Metaphern als Ausdruck subjektiver Theorien zum Übersetzen, Target International Journal of Translation Studies, December 2011, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/target.23.2.07mar.
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