The developing views on translation as an object of study in TS are clearly described by Halverson in her entry on translation in the first volume of this Handbook (Halverson 2010): from the objectivist approaches during the earlier stages of translation research to the non-objectivist and the relativist views. This evolution towards a growing problematization of the translation concept reflects the available amount of research and knowledge. The insight that translation reality shows a complex image of different forms and appearances of translation processes and products, up to cultural transfer, has undermined too straightforward objectivist approaches.

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Further essential reading

Cattrysse, Patrick

2014 Descriptive Adaptation Studies: Epistemological and Methodological Issues. Antwerpen: Garant.

Chan, Leo

2012 “A survey of the ‘new’ discipline of adaptation studies: between translation and interculturalism.” Perspectives 20 (4): 411–418.

Gonne, Maud, Klaartje Merrigan, Reine Meylaerts, and Heleen van Gerwen

(eds) 2020 Transfer thinking in translation studies: playing with the black box of cultural transfer. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Littau, Karin

2011 “First steps towards a media history of translation.” Translation Studies 4 (3): 261–281.

van Doorslaer, Luc

2020 “Translation Studies: What’s in a name?” Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies 7 (2): 139–150.