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levelling out: a standalone construct

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Translation studies

the proposed tendency of translated texts to be more similar to one another than original texts are, gravitating toward the centre of a continuum.

In translation studies, levelling out refers to the proposed tendency of translated texts to be more similar to one another than original texts are, gravitating toward the centre of a continuum. This meaning comes from Baker (1996) in Benjamins Translation Library.[1]

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References

Baker, M. (1996). Corpus-based translation studies. In Benjamins Translation Library (pp. 175-186). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.18.17bak

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