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Theories and Approaches To Translation Studies: Mona Hanif 19101717-004

The document discusses two articles about theories and approaches to translation studies. The first article focuses on translation textbooks in China and how they have influenced the field. The second article uses a corpus-based study to analyze trends in translation studies subfields over time.

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Theories and Approaches To Translation Studies: Mona Hanif 19101717-004

The document discusses two articles about theories and approaches to translation studies. The first article focuses on translation textbooks in China and how they have influenced the field. The second article uses a corpus-based study to analyze trends in translation studies subfields over time.

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Theories and Approaches to Translation

Studies
Mona Hanif
19101717-004
Contents

 Focus/theme
 Research design
 Participants/context
 Data collection
 Key findings/major postulates
 Limitations
 Differences and similarities with other authors
Article : 1

 Translation Studies and Textbooks


 Author: Youlan (2009)
Focus/theme

 Function of translation textbooks.


 Placement of translation textbooks in applied branch
 Modification of Holmes map
 Textbooks provide societal perspective of Translation studies in
China
Research design

 Qualitative approach is used.


 The descriptive methodology is used to explain the data.
 Liu’s interpretation of translation studies (the map of
translation studies)
 Tao’sinterpretation of translation studies (2005)
(modification of map)
Participants/context

 Translation textbooks in China and West


 The Holmes map.
 Textbooks are collected as according to their publication
in China
 1947-1965: 2 textbooks.
 1977-1989: 55 textbooks
 1990-1998: 41 textbooks
 1999-2005: 97 textbooks.
Data collection

 Data is collected by combining the various textbooks in


China from 1947 to 2005
 Three textbooks are separated due to their distinctive
features.
 1: He Gangqiang’s Art and Cra of Translation (2003)
 2: Mei Deming’s A Course in Interpreting (2003)
 3:Pan Hong’s A Course in English-Chinese Business
Translation (2004)
Key findings/major postulates

 Initially, translation textbooks were ignored in China.


 The textbooks exert an increasing influence on
Translation Studies as a discipline, as well as on the
social and economic development of China.
 The textbooks are prescriptive and lack a general model
for dividing translation into basic categories.
 The textbooks are heavily influenced by theories from
linguistics and foreign-language teaching pedagogy.
Limitation

 This study is limited to the historical perspective of


textbooks in China.
 Translation textbooks are considered as a component in
applied branch of Translation studies.
 Business translation is more focused according to
societal need of China.
Differences and similarities with other authors
 Monday less focused on applied branch
 Chinese modification of applied branch is described in
this article.
 Translation textbook work must be taken into account in
surveys of Translation Studies.
 Monday provides an overview of key contributions to
Western Translation Studies.
Article: 2

 Sketching landscapes in translation studies: A


bibliographic study
 Author
Zanettin, Saldanha & Harding (2015)
Focus/theme

 Explore the ways different subfield are related to the


area of translation studies.
 Investigatesthe shift of interests in translation studies
from time to time.
Research design

 Corpus based study


 Descriptive research
 Statistical approach
 Notion of landscapes and sketch maps
Participants/context

 Different authors and editors are studied in order to


know the emergence of different research areas in
translation studies.
 16,000 complete entries, including abstracts of articles,
chapters and dissertations
 The word lists are analyzed to look at the percentage
usage of certain terms by the authors of the articles
Data collection
 The source of data collection is TSA (translation
studies abstracts).
 Contents and categories of this corpus are focused
points in this research.
 A graphic representation of the annual distribution of
the total number of abstracts during those years (1997-
2011)
Key findings/major postulates

 50 key noun-phrases extracted from the corpus of a 40


million word.
 Over the time, there is a relative increase, decrease or
stability in number of abstracts in TSA category.
 From time to time, different disciplines are included in
this discipline such as Psychoanalysis and ethnography.
 The availability of new methods enables new
perspectives i.e. corpus-analysis
Limitations

 Limited to only one database of translation studies.


 Different databases like BITRA can also be combined in
this corpus to get the more reliable results.
 Only the role of editors of bibliographies is highlighted
Differences and similarities with other authors

 Monday talks about different publications in disciplines


of translation studies
 This research highlights the role of editors and
publishers in translation studies as they are equally
important along with authors.
 The data representation in corpus is affected by both
authors and editors of different translation
bibliographies.

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