ABSTRACT
The idea that translation assists in the diffusion and/or creation of knowledge is not new. In translation studies, this idea has been propounded in various forms. Examples are Susam-Sarajeva's (2006) study on how translation has aided the travel of ideas on semiotics into Turkey, Milton and Bandia's (2009) compilation on the use of translation as an agent for modernization, Gentzler's (2008) book on the creation of new forms of culture through translation, Tyulenev's (2012) views on the role of translation in the Westernization of Russia in the eighteenth century, and Sturge's (2007) study on the role of translation in the travel of anthropological knowledge.
