![]() More importantly, it is an attempt to demonstrate that (TS) is a vastly complex field with many far-reaching ramifications. The present study, therefore, attempts to outline the scope of the discipline of translation studies (TS), to give some indication of the kind of work that has been done so far. More recently, technological advances, which have transformed the working conditions of professional translators and researchers and have spawned new forms of translation, have also produced new areas of research, some linked to the effects of globalization and some to forms of intersemiotic translation. A literal translation is one which uses exactly the equivalent words as were in the original. There has also been a shift towards studies that have incorporated models from functional linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, locating the text within its sociocultural context. It may also result in idioms that bear no meaning in the target language. Such direct translation often results in unintelligible sentences and poor grammatical structures. It does not pay much attention to the meaning of a text as a whole. On the other hand, the past fifteen years or so have seen the focus of translation studies shift away from linguistics and increasingly to forms of cultural studies. Literal translation is what happens when something is translated word-for-word from one language to another. However, two points must be emphasized: (1) although translation has existed for many centuries, it was not until the second half of this century that ‘Translation Studies’ developed into a discipline in its own right, and (2) although translation has taken on concepts and methods of other disciplines, “it is still conceived as a subdiscipline of applied linguistics” ( Schaffner, 2004, p. As Gutknecht (2001) claims, the translation theorists have made little systematic use of the techniques and insights of contemporary linguistics. This paper has emerged out of the conviction that linguistic theory has more to offer to translation theory than is so far recognized and vice versa. ![]()
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