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Descriptive Translation Studies - and Beyond Gideon Toury
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Metadata for descriptive translation research. Although the concept of norm has contributed invaluably to the field of translation studies, translation scholars, like Pym (1998a), have also criticized Toury's approach for several reasons, one of which will be discussed in this response paper. Descriptive Translation Studies - and beyond: Revised edition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. In her response to the first few chapters of Toury's book Descriptive Translation Studies – And Beyond, in which he calls for a systematic study of the newly emerging discipline, Ebru provides a nice overview of the developments in descriptive translation studies. Pym, Anthony, Shlesinger, Miriam and Simeoni, Daniel, eds (2008): Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. · Corpus-based analysis of translation shifts. This was important move, since translated literature had up to that point mostly been dismissed as a derivative, second-rate form. Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond. · Usability of software for corpus building and analysis. · Parallel corpora in T&I studies. · Spoken corpora and alignment of transcriptions and audio/video .. · Methods and techniques for data collection. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 417 p. · Alignment of parallel corpora. We hope this year to have over 1 000 delegates from the countries where we have members and beyond. Toury was influenced both by Itamar Even-Zohar's polysystem theory and James Holmes's ideas of translation studies, and developed a descriptive and target oriented approach to translation.