Poetry Translating as Expert Action Processes, priorities and networks

 Poetry Translating as Expert Action

3.3.3 Career webs

We now move from first-order teams to second-order networks. First I examine

the ‘career webs’ linking translators across projects and with their peers – webs

which appear to underlie the sociological notion of ‘field’.

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Figure 8. Translation projects per translator

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Figure 9. Poets per translator