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The author of this paper attempts to make a detailed analysis of the impact the notion of the cultural turn exerted upon the translation studies at home, and to explore the historical elements of the notion and its inevitability of the emergence. The author also intends, at the conclusion of the paper, to present his view on the broad vista that the notion of the cultural turn has opened up the new areas for the current translation studies.
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突破语言、 突破文学的文化转向, 已经成为当今国际译学界翻译研究的一个重要发展趋势。 具体分析当代翻译研究中文化转向的历史渊源、 当下的必然性, 以及文化转向对当代国内译学研究带来的 “冲击”, 可以认为: “文化转向” 为比较文学研究, 也为翻译研究展现出一个新的广阔的研究领域。
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Translated from Zhongguo bijiao wenxue 中国比较文学 (Comparative Literature in China), 2006, (3): 1–13 by WU Gang, Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University
Xie Tianzhen 谢天振, professor of Foreign Literature Studies, director of Research Center for Translation Studies, SISU. His academic/Professional experience includes: Honour Professor of Peking Uiversity, Fudan University, and other 10 universities in China, visiting scholar of University of Alberta (Canada), University of Moscow (Russia), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Baptist University of Hong Kong, and others. He is also Vice-President of Chinese Comparative Literature Association, President of Chinese Translation Studies Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Literature in China (Quarterly). His major publications include: Introduction to Translation Studies, A History of Translated Literature in Modern China (1898–1949), New Perspectives in Translation Studies, and Medio-Translatology.
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Xie, T. The cultural turn in translation studies and its implications for contemporary translation studies. Front. Lit. Stud. China 3, 119–132 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-009-0005-x
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