Alhussein, Akkad;
(2020)
Target-cultural ‘facts’ – Do they really exist? A critical assessment of Toury’s Descriptive Translation Studies.
Transletters
, 2020
(4)
pp. 1-21.
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Abstract
Gideon Toury pioneered Descriptive Translation Studies as a science based on observation, (re)defining translation as a target-cultural ‘fact’ and, thus, shifting the focus to the translation as a product which can and should be studied without any methodological presumptions. However, this proves illusive, as it falsely supposes neutrality in research. Arguing that there could be no strict separation between description and evaluation, I will argue that— if we are to fully understand its complex nature—translation cannot be properly viewed as an exclusively target-cultural phenomenon. An overview of some alternative concepts that allow a more balanced perspective will be given.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Target-cultural ‘facts’ – Do they really exist? A critical assessment of Toury’s Descriptive Translation Studies |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/tl/artic... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147072 |
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