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This volume contains eight articles that offer a variety of perspectives on
the relationship between the text, which can be seen as a variable-shaped
object – be it written or spoken, pictorial or digital –, and the act of
translation. It wishes to question the way translation could impact the form
of a text, i.e. the role translation may play in shaping, constructing, and
eventually fabricating a text. The collected edition focuses on the text
viewed as an object of study in itself, while choosing an interdisciplinary
approach since it brings together literary, linguistic, cultural, and
multimodal perspectives. It also fosters combined interest in both theory and
practice with contributions from researchers and professional translators, and
includes recent approaches to the question. The collection comes to bear upon
text-making (edition) and text-shaping (textuality, or 'texture') in a number
of ways that make it directly relevant to studies of the book, publishing and
textuality.