Author: Jacob Toury
Publisher: Leo Baeck Inst
Keywords: des, leo, baeck, instituts, abhandlungen, wissenschaftlicher, textilunternehmer, baden, wurttemberg, schriftenreihe, judische
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1984-08
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 3167448245
ISBN-13: 9783167448243

Author: Gideon Toury
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: translation, vol, library, studies, descriptive, benjamins
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1995-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1556196873
ISBN-13: 9781556196874

Making a case for descriptive translation studies, as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, having immediate consequences for issues of both theoretical and applied nature, this text contains methodological discussions complemented by an assortment of case studies varying in scope and level, whereby the need to contextualize whatever one sets out to focus on is emphasized.

Authors:Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, Daniel Simeoni,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: translation, toury, benjamins, library, gideon, homage, studies, investigations, descriptive
Number of Pages: 417
Published: 2008-03-13
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 9027216843
ISBN-13: 9789027216847

To go "beyond" the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute. However, when Gideon Toury founded Descriptive Translation Studies as a research-based discipline, he laid down precisely that intellectual challenge: not just to describe translation, but to explain it through reference to wider relations. That call offers at once a common base, an open and multidirectional ambition, and many good reasons for unambiguous tribute.The authors brought together in this volume include key players in Translation Studies who have responded to Toury’s challenge in one way or ano