Translation studies go Asian in a quantitative way
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How individuals and societies make sense of the Other has been a big question for many decades – in philosophy, cultural anthropology and other disciplines where qualitative methods are paramount. The next word comes from an unlikely breed: philologists with computers. Being empirical is the motto of this new brave world of Geisteswissenschaften. Digital humanities, as the direction is branded, fl ourishes on the unprecedented availability of multilingual computerreadable texts and computational power, as well as the yearning to ‘discover’ theories through the ‘mining’ of data.
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