In:Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond
Gideon Toury
[Benjamins Translation Library 4] 1995
► pp. v–viii
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 18 May 1995
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.4.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.4.toc
Table of contents
Introduction. A case for Descriptive Translation Studies1
Part one. The Pivotal Position of Descriptive Studies and DTS7
Part two. A rationale for Descriptive Translation Studies21
Chapter 1. translation as facts of a ‘Target’ Culture: An Assumption and its methodological
implications23
Excursus A. Pseudotranslations as facts of a ‘Target’ culture40
Chapter 2. the nature and role of norms in translation53
Chapter 3. Constituting a method for descriptive studies70
Chapter 4. The coupled pair of Replacing + replaced segments87
Chapter 5. An exemplary ‘study in descriptive studies’: Conjoint phrases as translational
solutions102
Part three. Translation:in:Context: An assortment of case studies113
Chapter 6. Between a ‘Golden Poem’ and a Shakespearean Sonnet114
Chapter 7. A lesson from indirect translation129
Chapter 8. Literary organization and translational strategies: A text is sifted through a mediating model147
Excursus B. ‘Translation of literarytexts’ vs. ‘literary translation’166
Chapter 9. Studying interim solutions: Possibilities and implications181
Chapter 10. A translation comes into Being: Hamlet’s monologue in hebrew193
Chapter 11. Translation:specific lexical items and their lexicographical treatment206
Chapter 12. Experimentation in translational studies: Achievements, prospects and some pitfalls221
Excursus C. A bilingual speaker bcomes a translator: A Tentative development model241
Part four. Beyond descriptive studies: Towards laws of translational behaviour259
References281
Subject index301
Author index308
