Dancing on Ropes

Translators and the Balance of History

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Anna Aslanyan draws on her own experience and recounts tales of fellow translators across the centuries as she explains the challenges involved in their task of ensuring cross-cultural understanding. She reveals the ingenuity of their problem-solving and the sometimes momentous consequences of their work in diplomatic and legal contexts, before considering the role of human translators in our age of machine-learning.

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