Descriptive Translation Studies - and Beyond by Gideon Toury

Descriptive Translation Studies - and Beyond Gideon Toury ebook
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027216061, 9789027216069
Format: pdf
Page: 322

In his “Descriptive Translation Studies – And Beyond” (1995), he calls for a systematic approach to translation rather than the study of individual cases. The translation studies reader. Toury was influenced both by Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and James Holmes's ideas of translation studies, and developed a descriptive and target oriented approach to translation. It is divided into clear parts and presents a clear picture of the translation as a norm governed activity as apart of the Descriptive Translation Studies. Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond. Is an intriguing domain about which translation scholars seem to know precious little, beyond a small number of accounts of isolated individual cases. Christiane Nord: Translating as a Purposeful Activity: Functionalist Approaches Explained Gideon Toury: Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond. The formulation of questions is an important aspect of any research programme, and it has been the basis for descriptive- explanatory research as well. Toury's article on the norms is a quite systematic one. Pym, Anthony, Shlesinger, Miriam and Simeoni, Daniel, eds (2008): Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. From then Translation studies will inevitably go beyond the confines of any particular discipline, as it has formed its own research objects, research methods and theoretical systems. Translating as within Translation Studies; otherwise why take up this topic in the first place ? As will soon become clear, my choice of the word 'negotiations', in this .. In her response to the first few chapters of Toury's book Descriptive Translation Studies – And Beyond, in which he calls for a systematic study of the newly emerging discipline, Ebru provides a nice overview of the developments in descriptive translation studies. He even put forward a framework of translation studies, which says that translation studies consists of pure and applied translation studies, with the former containing theoretical and descriptive studies and the latter containing translator training, translation aids and translation criticism. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 417 p.