This article aims to apply a theoretical sampling to the observation of the paratranslating mechanisms that operate in spaces, in particular public ones. To begin, some issues are raised. According to Toury’s “assumed translation,” the designation of an original outside the target system is imperative; yet this postulate can be exercised in the form of spatial configurations that reproduce the translating processes at the scale of the human body and the landscape. We assume that all individuals have the ability to paratranslate - somewhat timidly - the moving mass of texts and objects assumedly foreign to their society. We also assume that translation is a social fact that is practiced to ensure the constant need for connecting the “elsewhere” with the “here.” In this regard, exogamy is a valid model for thinking about translation as a social fact, given that exchange and alliance lead unions to the “outside” of the group. After positing the participation of the entire social group in paratranslation tasks, as well as the continuity between the topology of large spaces and that of text supports, the article addresses the characteristics of several fields, and proposes methodological approaches for fieldwork, allowing to map the strategies of invocation of the “elsewhere.”