Beyond descriptive translation studies :: investigations in homage to Gideon Toury /

To go "beyond" the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute. However, when Gideon Toury founded Descriptive Translation Studies as a research-based discipline, he laid down precisely that intellectual challenge: not just to describe translation, but to explain it thr...

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Other Authors: Toury, Gideon, Pym, Anthony, 1956-, Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-2012, Simeoni, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Series:Benjamins translation library ; v. 75.
Benjamins translation library. EST subseries.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:To go "beyond" the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute. However, when Gideon Toury founded Descriptive Translation Studies as a research-based discipline, he laid down precisely that intellectual challenge: not just to describe translation, but to explain it through reference to wider relations. That call offers at once a common base, an open and multidirectional ambition, and many good reasons for unambiguous tribute. The authors brought together in this volume include key players in Translation Studies who have responded to Toury's challenge in one way or another
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 417 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027291677
9027291675
1282152335
9781282152335
9786612152337
6612152338
ISSN:0929-7316 ;