The notion of systems has helped revolutionize translation studies since the 1970s

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