Theo HermansTranslation in Systems
Descriptive and System-Oriented Approaches Explained
Preamble: Mann's Fate
1. An Invisible College
Names
Invisible Colleges
Manipulation College?
2. Lines of Approach
'Diagnostic rather than hortatory'
Decisions, Shifts, Metatexts
A Disciplinary Utopia
3. Points of Orientation
4. Undefining Translation
5. Describing Translation
First Attempts
Transemes?
Real Readers
Checklists
Comparative Practice
6. Working with Norms
Decisions and Norms
Toury's Norms
Chesterman's Norms
Norm Theory
Studying Norms
7. Beyond Norms
Laws?
Translation as Index
Equivalence?
Historicizing Theory
8. Into Systems
Polysystem's Sources
Polysystem's Terms
Polysystems in Action
Polysystem's Limitations
9. More Systems?
Mass Communication Maps
System, Ideology and Poetics
Translation as Field and Habitus
10. Translation as System
Expectations Structure
Translation as a Social System
Self-reference and Description
11. Criticisms
12. Perspectives