« Sur les seuils du traduire » wants to mark a distance with the too exclusive literary paradigm which nowadays still continues to burden, overload and overwhelm the field of Translation Studies. Literary translation constitutes, within the whole market of professional translation, but a single part, and not the most common one, besides. The symbolic and essentially visual language of all paratextual cultures is expressed apparently beyond translation limits, but in fact in its very margins, around the threshold of what translation means. It is precisely on those paratextual cultures that this academic blog focuses. In this blog the readers will find reflections on anthropological, social and cultural questions, elaborated with the help of the new theoretical notion of paratranslation. This new concept has been created at the University of Vigo in order to foster new developments within the field of Translation Studies. The concept is at the core of a new theoretical model which questions translation from the standpoints of philosophy, political thinking, anthropology, sociology, and semiotics.