studies.

In that sense Mailloux rhetorical hermeneutics also chimes emphatically so - with anti-foundationalist pragmatism: there is no transcendental position from which to judge the rightness of a particular translation, but some translations and some vocabularies allow us to do certain things better than others. It could be the task of a cross-cultural translation studies to work towards the creation of such new vocabularies to speak about translation in different cultures.

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