I was looking for the exact reference of an article by Isabelle Collombat and it turns out, she has published a book you can download on a comparison of images used in popular science in French and English.
Sometimes we think that the process of popularization( P) is very similar to translation ( T) itself, because the later is simply a channel between two parts ( SL/TL) and the first is also another channel between the scientists and the ordinary people. Here the question : Can we say that the P is a process of translating in the SL , then into the TL ? or the two processess are different ? and there is no similarities between them? ... your comments plz