ABSTRACT
Working with a three-elements model of practice, this chapter examines the role of one of those elements, materials, in translation and related practices. It focuses on how bodies and material entities both shape and are themselves shaped by the practice. We first consider how the body can be understood in a practice-theoretical sense, as configuring and being configured by translation practices. Then, to illustrate a practice-theoretical approach to material entities, we home in on material aspects of data representation and organization in translation memory systems.
