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In 1993, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science sponsored a conference on ‘The Roots of Joint Reference’. Its focus was the relationship between manual pointing and linguistic demonstrative utterance, and it brought together to discuss this issue psychologists, philosophers and linguists. The speaker from psychology expected my paper on translation to focus on how objects are translated from one place to another. The paper dealt with translation between languages.
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Malmkjær, K. (1999). Language and Literature: Englishes and Translation. In: Cribb, T.J. (eds) Imagined Commonwealths. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27060-6_6
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