ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the possible nature of a more coherent framework for building cognitive translation theories and integrating cognitive frameworks that appear, at first glance, to be incommensurate. To that end, the chapter proposes looking at translation products and processes as elements of a complex adaptive system, detailing how some of the properties of such systems could be extrapolated as general principles for reinterpreting cognitive translatology. The objective is not to address every critical issue in Cognitive Translation Studies—although it will touch on many—but to argue that cognitive translatology is commensurate with complexity thinking and that many of the ideas of complex adaptive systems theory could greatly inform theory building in our discipline.
