What is Hofstadter's contribution to the field of translation?
Developed a machine translator
Wrote a seminal book on translation
Explored the creative aspects of literary translation
Invented a new language
Answer
Hofstadter's contribution to the field of translation is his exploration of the creative aspects of literary translation. He argued that translation is not simply a matter of rendering the meaning of a text from one language to another, but that it also involves a creative process of reimagining the original work in a new context.
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