Ackowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of figures and tables
Introduction
Chapter 1
Main issues of translation studies
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The concept of translation
1.2 What is translation studies?
1.3 An early history of the discipline
1.4 The Holmes/Toury âmapâ
1.5 Developments since Holmes
1.6 The van Doorslaer âmapâ
1.7 Audiovisual translation
1.8 Discipline, interdiscipline or multidiscipline?
Chapter 2
The basic concepts of early translation theory
2.0 Introduction
2.1 âWord-for-wordâ or âsense-for-senseâ?
2.2 Early Chinese and Arabic discourse on translation
2.3 European Humanism and the Protestant Reformation
2.4 Fidelity, spirit and truth
2.5 Early attempts at systematic translation theory: Dryden, Dolet, Tytler and Y¡n F¹
2.6 Schleiermacher and the valorization of the foreign
2.7 Towards contemporary translation theory
Chapter 3
Equivalence and meaning
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Roman Jakobson: the nature of linguistic meaning and equivalence
3.2 Nida and âthe science of translatingâ
3.3 Koller: equivalence relations
3.4 Later developments in equivalence
Chapter 4
Studying translation product and process
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Vinay and Darbelnetâs model
4.2 Catford and translation âshiftsâ
4.3 Further influence and other proposed models
4.4 Option, markedness and stylistic shifts in translation
4.5 Corpus translation studies
4.6 The cognitive process of translation
Chapter 5
Functional theories of translation
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Text type and genre
5.2 Translatorial action
5.3 Skopos theory
5.4 Translation-oriented text analysis
Chapter 6
Discourse and Register analysis approaches
6.0 Introduction
6.1 The Hallidayan model of language and discourse
6.2 Houseâs model of translation quality assessment
6.3 Bakerâs text and pragmatic level analysis
6.4 Hatim and Mason: the levels of context and discourse
6.5 The appraisal framework
6.6 Criticisms of discourse and Register analysis approaches to translation
6.7 Socio-narrative theory
Chapter 7
Systems theories
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Polysystem theory
7.2 Toury and descriptive translation studies
7.3 Chestermanâs translation norms
7.4 Other models of descriptive translation studies: Lambert and van Gorp and the Manipulation School
Chapter 8
Cultural and ideological turns
8.0 Introduction
8.1 Translation as rewriting
8.2 Translation, gender studies and feminist studies
8.3 Queer translation
8.4 Transgender/trans* translation
8.5 Postcolonial translation theory
8.6 The ideologies of the theorists
8.7 Translation, ideology and power in other contexts
Chapter 9
The role of the translator: visibility, ethics and sociology
9.0 Introduction
9.1 The cultural and political agenda of translation
9.2 The position and positionality of the translator
9.3 The sociology and historiography of translation
9.4 The power network of the translation industry
9.5 Paratexts in translation
Chapter 10
Philosophical approaches to translation
10.0 Introduction
10.1 Steinerâs hermeneutic motion
10.2 The task of the translator vs. the translatorâs task: Walter Benjamin
10.3 Deconstruction
10.4 Cannibalist theory of translation
Chapter 11
New directions and challenges
11.0 Introduction
11.1 New debates on the limits of translation
11.2 From target audience to participatory communities
11.3 Translation in the digital age of globalization
11.4 Eco-translation, labour issues and sustainability
Chapter 12
Research and commentary projects
12.0 Introduction
12.1 Towards a reconceptualization of translation studies
12.2 Translation commentaries
12.3 Research projects in translation studies
Bibliography
Index
