Concept of Translation
The English word “translation” first appeared around what year?
1340
What is Translation Studies often abbreviated as?
TS
Which Roman thinkers discussed translation in the 1st century BC?
Cicero & Horace
Holmes divided TS into “pure” and ___?
Applied
Who proposed a new conceptual “map” after Holmes?
Luc van Doorslaer
Translation can mean the process, the product, or the ___?
General subject field
Before becoming its own field, translation was mainly studied under which discipline?
Language learning / comparative literature
Who translated the Bible into Latin, influencing translations for centuries?
St. Jerome
DTS stands for what?
Descriptive Translation Studies
What does interdiscipline mean in TS?
TS draws from and contributes to other disciplines
Who defined interpreting as “a form of translation in which the source text is presented only once under time pressure”?
Otto Kade
Who is considered the “founding father” of Translation Studies with his 1972 paper?
James S. Holmes
In China, early discussions on translation started with which texts?
Buddhist sutras
Which Israeli scholar reformulated Holmes’s map?
Gideon Toury
Which online tool organizes knowledge structures for TS?
Translation Studies Bibliography
In translation, ST and TT stand for what?
Source Text / Target Text
Name two major international TS associations founded after the 1980s.
e.g., EST, IATIS, ATISA, CATS
What 16th-century event turned Bible translation into a battlefield of ideology?
The Reformation
Name the three focuses of DTS.
Product, Function, Process
What does “multidiscipline” suggest about TS?
It connects multiple disciplines but may lack a single unified core
Name Jakobson’s three types of translation.
Intralingual, Interlingual, Intersemiotic
What are the “three branches” of Translation Studies according to Holmes?
Theoretical, Descriptive, Applied
The “grammar-translation method” dominated language teaching until which decade?
1960s and beyond
What kind of theories are restricted by text type, rank, or medium?
Partial theories
Name two disciplines TS interacts with
e.g., Linguistics, Literature, Sociology, Philosophy, Cultural Studies