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Toury, Gideon. 1991. What are descriptive studies into translation likely to yield apart from isolated descriptions? In Leuven-Zwart, Kitty M. van and Ton Naaijkens, eds. Translation Studies: the state of the art (Approaches to Translation Studies 9). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 179–192.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
canon | functional translation | polysystem theory=system theory | process-oriented focus | product-oriented focus | Translation Studies

Abstract

This paperdescribes the interdependence of the three translation approaches (process, product and function), and explicative and predictive aims of translation studies, with an example of a translation universal (avoiding recurrence, especially in canonical texts).
Source : BITRA/J. Franco