This paper looks at some aspects that influence the status of the translation profession in the 21st century and questions the impact of social, economic and cultural changes on life in general as well as on translation and interpretation.
Department of Applied Linguistics Sapientia University Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences Târgu-Mureş
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