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Chesterman: On the Idea of a Theory - Coggle Diagram

- - - - symbolic narratives
        
        e.g. Babel myth
    - - some positive
        
        TS = pouring precious liquid from one jar into another
        
        TS = digging up treasure hidden in the earth
        
        TS = opening a window to let the light in
      - most negative!
        
        TS = backside of a tapestry
        
        Translator as slave of ST
        
        Translator = magpie among peacocks pretending to be a peacock
        
        TS like a woman (if faithful not beautiful + vice versa)
        
        misogyny, sexism
      - Venuti - TS as "pane of glass"
        
        We should not be able to tell that it is a TS
        
        invisibility of the translator
        
        BUT translator is an author!
        
        contradiction author x translator
  - - - Comparative models
        
        Compare 2 things (retranslations, non-TS comparable texts..)
      - Process models
        
        TAPs, keylogging
      - Causal models
        
        TS result of causal conditions and itself causes effects
    - - Descriptive
        
        describe some reality, no WHY
      - Explanatory
        
        explain phenomenon + WHY
      - Predictive
        
        predicts sth, can be tested
      - Interpretative
        
        cannot be empirically tested → tested against pragmatic criteria of usefulness (helpful or not?)
    - - models + hypotheses