Gideon Toury

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gideon Toury is involved.

Book series

General Editor: Roberto A. Valdeón

ISSN 0929-7316

Journal

International Journal of Translation Studies

Edited by Haidee Kotze

ISSN 0924-1884 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9986

Titles

Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond: Revised edition

Gideon Toury

This is an expanded and slightly revised version of the book of the same title which caused quite a stir when it was first published (1995). It thus reflects an additional step in an ongoing research project which was launched in the 1970s. The main objective is to transcend the limitations of… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 100] 2012. xv, 350 pp.

Jewish Translation History: A bibliography of bibliographies and studies

Robert Singerman

A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 44] 2002. xxxvi, 420 pp.

Descriptive Translation Studies – and beyond

Gideon Toury

A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes 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 a theoretical… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 4] 1995. viii, 311 pp.

Articles (12) | Order by:

Toury, Gideon 2011 Translation problem Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 2, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 169–174 | Article

Toury, Gideon 2009 Incubation, birth and growth: Observations on the first 20 years of Target Target 21:2, pp. 189–207 | Article

Twenty years in the life of an academic journal is justification enough for stocktaking, be it ever so tentative; the more so as, in the case at hand, the anniversary coincides with a major change of editorship. I would also like to think that the time is ripe for some patting on the proverbial… read more

Toury, Gideon 2008 Interview in Toronto (an interview conducted by Daniel Simeoni at York University, Toronto, on September 16 and 18, 2003) Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Daniel Simeoni (eds.), pp. 399–414 | Article

Toury, Gideon 2006 Conducting research on a “Wish-to-Understand” basis Translation Studies at the Interface of Disciplines, Duarte, João Ferreira, Alexandra Assis Rosa and Teresa Seruya (eds.), pp. 55–66 | Article

When purporting to account for translational behavior and supply it with explanations concerning reasons and results, many scholars are still prone to take too many things for granted. Thus, we often purport to know “for a fact,” even adopt as a framework for our very study, claims which should… read more