A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, ...

To go beyond the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute.

This is an expanded and slightly revised version of the book of the same title which caused quite a stir when it was first published (1995).

This omnibus edition of the Celestial Spheres series brings the entirety of Alex and Toury's story together in one volume!

... Toury, Gideon (1991a) 'Experimentation in Translation Studies: Achievements, Prospects and Some Pitfalls', in Empirical Research in Translation and Intercultural Sudies (ed. SonjaTirkkonen-Condit), Tübingen: Narr, 45–66. Toury, Gideon ...

... Toury's threefold division , or rather the cline with the two extremes of rule and idiosyncrasy with norm occupying the middle ground , goes back to Coseriu's linguistic cline of system , norm and text / discourse ( see 1.2 ) , 31 ...

... (Toury 1995:3) Toury goesonto propose justsucha methodology for thebranchof descriptivetranslation studies(DTS). For Toury (1995:13),translations firstandforemost occupyaposition inthe socialand literarysystemsofthe target culture ...

... Toury's claim that Translation Stud- ies is an empirical science . This claim was originally also used as a means to ... ( Toury 1985 : 20 ; cf. also 1995 : 32 ) . On the level of methodology this claim amounts to the ' equivalence ...

... Toury's transfer postulate , which should allegedly be replaced with a more sophisticated view whereby translation is a “ representation " or a " re - enactment of an anterior text " ( ibid : 52 ) . Even if we concede that Toury's ...