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Areas in Translation Research

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Areas in translation research

By Estefania Arreola Meraz

These five areas in translation research and its subtopics were established by Andrew Chesterman y Jenny Williams in their book "The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies" in 2002.

Text Analysis and Translation

- Source Text Analysis - Comparison of Translations and their source texts - Comparison of Translations and non-translated texts - Translation with commentary

Translation Quality Assessment

- Source oriented - Target-language oriented - Translation effects

Genre Translation

- Drama- Poetry- Prose fiction- Religious Texts- Children’s literature - Tourism Texts - Technical Texts - Legal Texts

Multimedia Translation

- Revoicing- Sur-/subtitling

Translation and Technology

- Evaluating Software - Software Localization- Effects of Technology; - Website Translation; - The place of technology in Translator Training

Sources

There are a total of 12 areas in translation research and each one of them has at least three sub-areas/topics which are important in order to understand them and applied them successfully.

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