ABSTRACT
52In this chapter: Translation for the professional translator is a constant learning cycle that moves through the stages of instinct (unfocused readiness), experience (engagement with the real world), and habit (a “promptitude of action”), and, within experience, through the stages of abduction (intuitive leaps), induction (pattern-building), and deduction (rules and theories). The translator is at once a professional for whom complex mental processes have become second nature (and thus subliminal), and a learner who must constantly face and solve new problems in conscious analytical ways.
