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The Twenty-Seven Lenses

25. Translational-multilingual

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Steiner · Benjamin · Grosjean · Bialystok

The readings follow the same through-line order used throughout the system, making it possible to compare what this lens changes from one idea to the next.

3. Calibration to the specific other, rather than one imposed register

Steiner’s translation operations.

4. The same intellectual material redeployed across registers

Benjamin’s task of the translator — preserving intention across surface.

18. Honouring origin without subscribing to it

Steiner’s cross-cultural translation.