PART I Introduction to Translation Studies
Chapter 1 Introduction to Translation as a Discipline
1. Basics of Translation
2. Criteria of Translation
3. Constraints of Translation
4. Nature of Translation
5. Misconceptions Concerning Translation and Translators
Chapter 2 Translation Studies: Emergence of a Discipline
1. Overview of the Development in Translation Studies
2. Features of Contemporary Western Approaches to Translation
3. Selected Readings: The Name and Nature of Translation Studies by James S.
PART II Main Approaches to Contemporary Translation Theories
Chapter 3 Linguistic Approach: A Scientific Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: On Linguistic Aspects of Translation by Roman Jakobson
Chapter 4 Functional Approach: A Skopos Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: Skopos and Commission in Translational Action by Hans J.Vermeer
Chapter 5 Hermeneutics: An Angle to Interpret
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: The Hermeneutic Motion by George Steiner
Chapter 6 Cultural Translation Studies: A Culture-oriented Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: The Position of Translated Literature Within the Literary Polysystem by Itamar Even-Zohar
Chapter 7 Deconstructionism: A Philosophical Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: Translation, Community, Uopia by Lawrence Venuti
Chapter 8 Fenminism: A Gender-based Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation by Lori Chamberlain
Chapter 9 Postcolonialism: An Integrated Perspective
1. Main Thoughts and Critiques
2. Chief Theorists and Scholars
3. Selected Readings: The Politics of Translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
PART III ToPics and Issues in Translation Practice
Chapter 10 Translatability and Untranslatability
Selected Readings: Thick Translation by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Chapter 11 Domestication and Foreignization
Selected Readings: Translation and the Trials of the Foreign by Antoine Berman
Chapter 12 Translator's Subjectivity
Selected Readings: The Task of the Translator by Walter Benjamin
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