Introducing Translation Studies《翻译研究入门 知识点总结》

Introducing Translation Studies

—Theories and Applications

Name: Zhu Mi

Class: English 112

2013/12/24

Introducing Translation Studies

—Theories and Applications

I.Main issues of translation studies

1.1T he concept of translation

The term translation itself has several meanings: it can refer to the general subject field, the product or the process.

The process of translation between two different written languages involves the translator changing an original verbal language into a written text in a different verbal language.—interlingual translation

The Russian-American structuralist Roman Jakobson in his seminal paper”On linguistic aspects of translation’gave his categories as intralingual translation, interlingual translation and intersemiotic translation.

1.2W hat are translation studies?

Written and spoken translations traditionally were for scholarship and religious purposes.

Yet the study of translation as an academic subject has only really begun in the past fifty years, thanks to the Dutch-based US scholar James S.Holmes.

Reasons for prominence: first, there has been a proliferation of specialized translating and interpreting courses at both and undergraduate and postgraduate level; second, other courses, in smaller numbers, focus on the practice of literary translation; the 1990s also saw a proliferation of conferences, books and journals on translation in many languages; in addition, various translation events were held in India, and an on-line translation symposium was organized.

1.3A brief history of the discipline

The practice of translation was discussed by, for example, Cicero and Horace and St Jerome;

their writings were to exert an important influence up until the twentieth century.

The study of translation of the field developed into an academic discipline only in the second half of the twentieth century.

Before that, translation had normally been merely an element of language learning in modern language courses, known for the grammar-translation method.

With the rise of the direct method or communicative approach to English language teaching in the 1960s and 1970s, the grammar-translation method fell into increasing disrepute.

In the USA, translation was promoted in universities in the 1960s by the translation workshop concept. Running parallel to it was that of comparative literature.

Another area in which translation become the subject of research was contrastive analysis.

The continued application of a linguistic approach in general, and specific linguistic models such as generative grammar or functional grammar, has demonstrated an inherent and gut