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Text & Translation Research Unit
At the centre of culture and civilization stands a large (and increasing) number of texts which are fundamental to understanding the ways in which human communication has been, is, and will be, interpreted and re-interpreted. In their varied oral, written, printed, and electronic forms, these texts offer possibilities for people in widely separated times and places to reach some level of understanding of each other.
Text and Translation Research is a broad concept which includes many disciplines within its practice, and comprises a wide range of areas of research and scholarship associated with the interpretation, translation, production, editing, dissemination, preservation and transmission of texts. These range from the study of alphabets and handwriting styles to the composition and compilation of manuscripts and books and electronic resources; from the techniques of manuscript preservation to the principles of textual editing; from the ancient scripts and their production to that of modern computing languages; from practices involved in oral composition to the analysis of written texts; from the study of texts in their original language to the translation of texts from one language to another. |
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