The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies by Lange, Anne; Monticelli, Daniele; Rundle, Christopher;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies is an exploration of the history of translation and interpreting studies (TIS) as a field of intellectual enquiry.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies is an exploration of the history of translation and interpreting studies (TIS) as a field of intellectual enquiry.

The volume covers the evolution of thinking on translation, from the earliest discourses in Assyria, Egypt, Israel, China, India, Greece, and Rome, up to the early 20th century when TIS emerged as an identifiable academic field. The volume also traces the institutionalization of TIS and its key concepts from their beginnings in the 1920s in Ukraine up to their contemporary interdisciplinary manifestations. Written by leading international scholars, many of whom played a direct role in the events they describe, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive and in-depth account of the birth and consolidation of translation and interpreting studies as a thriving interdiscipline.

With a focus on providing readers with the methodological and theoretical tools they need to conduct research, as well as background in the historiography of TIS, this handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation and interpreting studies.

"This Handbook is a much-needed response to calls for more comprehensive historical and global reflections on the origins and emergence of translation and interpreting studies (TIS). It is structured into three main parts focusing on the intellectual history of thinking on translation, historical reconstruction of the development of translation and interpreting studies, and on the evolution of its central concepts. Through this historical and thematical approach, the volume both challenges and elaborates the origins of the dominant Western perspectives and adds to our understanding about the historical and cultural relativity of its key concepts. This book is a valuable resource for all students and researchers in the interdiscipline."

Pekka Kujamäki. Professor of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria

Table of Contents:

PART I: The Intellectual history of translation 1. Earliest Discourses on Translation  2. Classical Antiquity  3. The Middle Ages  4. The Early Modern Period: Renaissance to Enlightenment  5. Translation in the Nineteenth Century  6. The Twentieth Century up to the End of the Second World War  PART II : Translation and interpreting studies as an interdiscipline  7. The First Comprehensive Treatments of Translation in Eastern Europe (1950s-60s)  8. Linguistic Theories of Translation  9. Functional Translation Theories  10. Semiotics of Translation  11. Interpreting Studies  12. The History of Translation and Interpreting  13. The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies  14. Sociological Translation Theories  15. Humanizing Translation  16. Audiovisual Translation Studies  17. Corpus-Based Translation Studies  18. Experimental Translation Studies  19. The History of Translation Technologies  20. Historical Perspectives on the Learning and Teaching of Translation and Interpreting  21. Methodology in Translation Studies  PART III: Key Concepts  22. Translation  23. Meaning in Translation
24. Adequacy and Acceptability  25. Source and Target Texts  26. Directionality in Translation  27. Translation and Interpreting Process Research  28. Translation Quality  29. Translation Universals  30. Agency and Performativity in Translation