In:Reflections on Translation Theory: Selected papers 1993 - 2014
Andrew Chesterman
[Benjamins Translation Library 132] 2017
► pp. 25–33
Paper 3What constitutes “progress” in Translation Studies?
Published online: 26 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.132.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.132.c3
Abstract
Translation Studies is sometimes taken to be an applied science, sometimes a hermeneutic discipline, and sometimes an empirical human science. Each of these views has a different idea of what would be understood as progress: different criteria. We do not have a shared paradigm in TS, but we might one day arrive at one by bringing together different kinds of explanation.
Article outline
- 1.Applied science
- 2.Hermeneutic discipline
- 3.Empirical human science
- 4.Notions and criteria of progress
- 5.Theories and paradigms
- 6.In conclusion
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