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1、JournalofKingSaudUniversity–LanguagesandTranslation(2011)23,29–45KingSaudUniversityJournalofKingSaudUniversity–LanguagesandTranslationwww.ksu.edu.sawww.sciencedirect.comORIGINALARTICLETowardsanunderstandingofthedistinctivenatureoftranslationstudiesHosniMostafaEl-daliUAEUniversity,Al-Ain,Unit
2、edArabEmiratesReceived22October2008;accepted18January2010Availableonline7December2010KEYWORDSAbstractThispaperhasemergedoutoftheconvictionthatlinguistictheoryhasmoretooffertoLinguistictheorytranslationtranslationtheorythanissofarrecognizedandviceversa.AsGutknecht(2001)claims,thetheory;transl
3、ationtheoristshavemadelittlesystematicuseofthetechniquesandinsightsofcontemporaryTranslationStudies;linguistics.However,twopointsmustbeemphasized:(1)althoughtranslationhasexistedformanyCulturalstudiessocioculturalcenturies,itwasnotuntilthesecondhalfofthiscenturythat‘TranslationStudies’develo
4、pedintoacontext;disciplineinitsownright,and(2)althoughtranslationhastakenonconceptsandmethodsofotherTechnologicaladvances;disciplines,‘‘itisstillconceivedasasubdisciplineofappliedlinguistics’’(Schaffner,2004,p.2).OnNewareasofresearch;theotherhand,thepastfifteenyearsorsohaveseenthefocusoftrans
5、lationstudiesshiftawayfromIntersemiotictranslationlinguisticsandincreasinglytoformsofculturalstudies.TherehasalsobeenashifttowardsstudiesthathaveincorporatedmodelsfromfunctionallinguisticsandCriticalDiscourseAnalysis,locatingthetextwithinitssocioculturalcontext.Morerecently,technologicaladva
6、nces,whichhavetrans-formedtheworkingconditionsofprofessionaltranslatorsandresearchersandhavespawnednewformsoftranslation,havealsoproducednewareasofresearch,somelinkedtotheeffectsofglob-alizationandsometoformsofintersemiotictranslation.Thepresentstudy,therefore,attemptstooutlinethescopeofthed
7、isciplineoftranslationstudies(TS),togivesomeindicationofthekindofworkthathasbeendonesofar.Moreimportantly,itisanattempttodemonstratethat(TS)isavastlycomplexfieldwithmanyfar-reachingramifications.ª2010KingSaudUniversity.ProductionandHostingbyElsevierB