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the problem of "delineating" the object category, i.e. distinguishing "translation" from "non-translation", is more fruitfully addressed by restating the issue. The move entails giving up both the notion of a completely objective delineation, one "true" delineation, and that of a completely socially, or culturally, relative one. It involves looking for an experientially based (shared) cognitive structure, which, when applied to empirical "reality" will yield a pattern of prototype effects. The move will provide the means of deriving the pattern of gradience in category judgments (the pattern of more or less agreement on an exemplar's status); it will provide us with the means of explaining the gradience pattern (the source of the effects); and finally, an experientially based, cognitive approach will allow us to position the "translation" category relative to other similar and related ones (e.g. communication in general, paraphrase, or even metaphor and analogy). --- Halverson, S. L. (1999).«Conceptual Work and the “Translation” Concept». Target, 11(1), 1–31. doi:10.1075/target.11.1.02hal
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