This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and author of two dozen books and five dozen articles and book chapters on translation, literature, rhetoric, semiotics, and culture. His recent Routledge books include Critical Translation Studies (2017), Translationality (2017), Priming Translation (2022), and Translation as a Form (2023).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stair-Stepped Anti-Idealism

Chapter 1: Agency

Chapter 2: Difference (the Ethics of)

Chapter 3: Eurocentrism (Attitudes Toward)

Chapter 4: Hermeneutics

Chapter 5: Language

Chapter 6: Norms

Chapter 7: Rhetoric

Chapter 8: World Literature

Chapter 9: Conclusion: So What?

References

Index