Translator studies

Andrew Chesterman
University of Helsinki
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James Holmes’ classic map of translation studies (TS) (1988) rapidly became one of the foundations of contemporary descriptive TS. It largely reflected the traditional focus on translations as texts or products. However, contemporary research on translation has long been concerned with issues that go beyond purely textual or linguistic ones, and this general perspective seems to be on the increase as the field broadens.

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Further essential reading

Delisle, Jean and Judith Woodsworth
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Kaindl, Klaus, and Karlheinz Spitzl
(eds) 2014 Transfiction: Research into the Realities of Translation Fiction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Kinnunen, Tuija, and Kaisa Koskinen
(eds) 2010 Translators’ agency. Tampere: Tampere University Press. Available at https://​trepo​.tuni​.fi​/bitstream​/handle​/10024​/65639​/978​-951​-44​-8082​-9​.pdf.Google Scholar
Pym, Anthony
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