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Publication details [#3598]

Franco Aixelá, Javier. 2001. Prescriptivismo y descriptivismo: objetivos de una teoría de la traducción [Prescriptivism and descriptivism: the aims of a theory of translation]. In Raccah, Pierre-Yves and Belén Saiz Noeda, eds. Lenguas, literatura y traducción: aproximaciones teóricas [Languages, literature and translation: theoretical aspects]. Madrid: Arrecife. pp. 157–176.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

Spanish

Keywords

descriptive approach | explicitation=explanation | theory=translation theory=interpreting theory | Translation Studies

Abstract

A brief review of the history of translation theory, focusing on the dichotomy prescriptivism/descriptivism. The paper tries to explain the process by which modern translation studies, unlike traditional ones, tend to description, explanation and constrained prediction, instead of prescription.

Source : BITRA / J. Franco