1. Translation Studies in the UK
Dr Richard Mansell
University of Exeter
5th June 2017

2. The view from 1990…
“With the current approach, translation studies of the kind pursued at West German universities produce few results of interest to people outside the community formed by the translation scholars themselves. […] We need more orientation toward the needs and interests of practising translators and their clients.” Lars Berglund, a technical translator in Germany.

3. What is Translation Studies?

4. The map of the discipline
Translation Studies
“Pure” Translation Studies
Theoretical Translation Studies
Descriptive Translation Studies
Applied Translation Studies

5. Map of disciplines interfacing with Translation Studies, from Hatim and Munday 2004: 8
Philosophy
Linguistics
Literary Studies
Cultural Studies
Language Engineering

6. (Some) areas of research
Text analysis and translation
Translation ethics
Translation Quality Assessment
Terminology and glossaries
Genre translation
Interpreting
Multimedia translation
The translation process
Translation and technology
Translator training
Translation history
The translation profession

7. In the UK – teaching Most translation courses are taught postgraduate
A spectrum from those overtly theory-based, to those solely training translators
There are some UG translation courses, and it is also taught as a part of other (mostly language) courses.

8. In the UK- research
Location of researchers
“Outputs”

9. Important groups and links
ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting)
CIoL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
TA (Translators Association)
ETN (Emerging Translators Network)
FIT-IFT (International Federation of Translators)
BCLT (British Centre for Literary Translation)
EST (European Society for Translation Studies)
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