Section Ⅰ:Translation studies:History,basic concepts and key issues in research

1 Translation studies and applied linguistics

1.1 Applied linguistics and the translation analyst

1.2 Action research:The theory-practice cycle

1.3 Translation studies:A house of many rooms

2 From linguistic systems to cultures in contact

2.1 Formal equivalence

2.2 Bridging cultural and linguistic differences

3 Equivalence:Pragmatic and textual criteria

3.1 Opening up to pragmatics

3.2 Textuality and equivalence

3.3 Translation and relevance

4 Cultural studies and translator invisibility

4.1 Translator invisibility

4.2 Deconstruction:The plurality of meaning

4.3 Gendered translation:Production not reproduction

5 From word to text and beyond

5.1 Translation as metatext

5.2 Translation:Shaping context and history

6 Litera ry and cultural constraints

6.1 Polysystem Theory and translation

6.2 The Manipulationists

6.3 Translation purpose

6.4 The circle closes:Linkages to other disciplines

Section Ⅱ:Research models

7 Register-oriented research models

7.1 The age of dichotomies

7.2 Skopos and translation strategy

7.3 Text reception and translation strategy

7.4 Quality assessment and translation strategy

8 The pragmatics turn in research

8.1 Translation strategy and Relevance Theory

8.2 Translating the direct way

8.3 Communicative clues

8.4 The pragmatic view of translation strategy assessed

9 Focus on the text

9.1 Text processing and the process of translation

9.2 The genre-text-discourse triad

10 Translation and ideology

10.1 The ideology of translation:A cultural studies perspective

10.2 The ideology of translation:A feminist perspective

11 Translation of genre vs translation as genre

11.1 The translation of genre

11.2 Translation as genre

12 Empirical research in translation studies

12.1 Corpus research into translation universals

12.2 Process research

13 Theory and practice in translation teaching

13.1 Translation into the foreign language

13.2 The nature of translation errors

13.3 Text typologies as a didactic instrument

Section Ⅲ:Emphasis on practitioner research

14 Action and reflection in practitioner research

14.1 Textual practices and practitioner research

14.2 Researching text,discourse and genre

14.3 Text matters

14.4 Discourse matters

14.5 Genre matters

Section Ⅳ:Links and resources

15 Links and resources

15.1 Translators'on-line resources

Glossary

References

Index