Translation Studies and Transfer Studies

A plea for widening the scope of Translation Studies

Susanne Göpferich | Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria

This paper pleads for a widening of the scope of Translation Studies to include any mediated transformation of offers of information performed to fulfil specific functions and meet the needs of specific audiences. Such a widening brings Translation Studies closer to the newly established related field of Transfer Studies (“Transferwissenschaften”). Reasons for this expansion are explained.

Keywords: expanding the translation concept, quality assessment, text transformations, Transfer Studies, translation theory

Published online: 13 July 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.72.06gop

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