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Paradigm Shifts in Translation Studies: Focus on Linguistic, Cultural, Social and Psychological Turns



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Hosni Mostafa El-daly

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2015.05.007

United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Translation has been the subject of a variety of research and conflicts among theorists. This fact that gives Thomas Samuel Kuhn’s paradigm theory is pertinent to the present study. Kuhn is an American philosopher of Science. In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he proposes his paradigm theory which plays a great role in the development of sociology and philosophy of Science. According to Kuhn (1970), paradigm originates from one or some famous people’s achievements, and for these achievements to be considered as paradigms, two major characteristics must be met as will be clarified in this paper. This study is an attempt to outline the scope of the disciplines of Translation Studies (TS), to give some indication of the kind of work that has been done so far. It is an attempt to demonstrate that TS is a discipline in its own right. It is a vastly complex field with many far-reaching ramifications. This study discusses the relationships between the changing definitions of translation and the turns of translation studies.

linguistic turn, cultural turn, social and psychological turn