Book review. Descriptive Translation Studies and beyond Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995. viii + 311 pp. ISBN Hb.: 90 272 2145 6 (Eur.) Hfl 145,-./ 1-55619-495-1 (US.) $ 84.00./ Pb.: 90 272 1606 1 (Eur.) Hfl 55,-./ 1-55619-687-3 (US.) $ 27.95 (Benjamins Translation Library, 4).
Table of contents
This is the long-awaited update and development of Toury's earlier book In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980). The search is still on, but the discipline has come a good bit further during the last 15 years. This new book offers a fairly comprehensive survey of the descriptive branch of Translation Studies, with a strong and welcome focus on conceptual clarity and on methodology. As the title suggests, Toury also looks ahead to where research might move next.
References
Chesterman, Andrew
1993 “From ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’: Laws, Norms and Strategies in Translation Studies”. Target 5:1. 1–20. 
1996 “On Similarity”. Target 8:1. 159–164.
Holmes, James S.
1988 Translated!: Papers on Literary Translation and Translation Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Toury, Gideon
1980 In Search of a Theory of Translation. Tel Aviv: The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics.