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Two previous articles, Harris (1973) and Harris (1977), have argued that the data for translatology (the scientific study of translating) should come primarily from natural translation rather than from literary, technical and other professional or semi-professional branches of translation as in the past. Natural translation was defined as: “The translating done in everyday circumstances by people who have had no special training for it.”
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Harris, B., Sherwood, B. (1978). Translating as an Innate Skill. In: Gerver, D., Sinaiko, H.W. (eds) Language Interpretation and Communication. NATO Conference Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9077-4_15
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