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The culture turn of translation studies was
initially put forward by Bassnett and Lefevere (1990) cultural approach
in 1990. As important representatives of cultural approach in
translation studies, Bassnett and Lefevere attached great importance to
the role of culture in translation, the social background, the influence
that cultural tradition imposed on translation, the subjectivity of
translators and researching shift from linguistic to culture, thus
improving the literariness of translated texts. Such method of study
expanded the scope of translation studies enormously, opened a new field
of study, thus it enhanced a further and more comprehensive development
of translation studies. This paper will present a brief introduction of
the history of translation studies, analyzing the social causes of
culture turn and especially discuss the series shifts brought by culture
turn in status of translated texts and translators, and the methods of
translation analysis. In the end, some personal viewpoints will be
showed about the culture turn in translation studies.
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Yan, C. and Huang, J. (2014) The Culture Turn in Translation Studies. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 4, 487-494. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2014.44041.
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