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exists in other developed countries like the U.S.A. and U.K. where the publishers tend to
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choose a work from abroad which easily assimilated into the target culture.
The
percentage of books translated in both of these countries is extremely low comprising
only around 2.5 to 03 percent of the total number of books published. But the situation is
most crucial in Pakistan, where the graph shows the percentage to minus zero
(Munday,2001).
It is the market forces that reinforce and even determine these trends. Its high time that
some concrete measures may be adopted for the betterment of the existing state.
10.2.12 TRANSLATION STUDIES AS AN INTER DISCIPLINE
There has been a move in the recent years towards establishing links across disciplines.
Such interdisciplinary approaches break down barriers and reflect the rapid exchange of
knowledge in a globalized and information rich society. Translation studies
is an
example par excellence of the field which can bring together approaches from a wider
range of language and cultural studies, modifying them for its own use, and developing
new models specific to its own requirements.
An interdiscipline can be studied and taught in its own right, and can promote crossdisciplinary
cooperation.. Thus, Translation Studies have a primary relationship to other
disciplines, such as Linguistics, especially Semantics, Pragmatics, Applied and
Contrastive Linguistics, Modern Languages and Language Studies, Comparative
Language and Literature, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy of Language and Meaning,
including Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. However the relationship of Translation
Studies to other disciplines is not fixed.
Other secondary relationships come to the fore when dealing with the area of Applied
Translation studies, such as Translation Training, or Machine Assisted Translation.
Interdisciplinary Approaches
In more recent years, Translation
Studies have gone beyond purely linguistic approaches
to develop its own models, such as Toury’s Descriptive Translation Studies. Hatim and
Mason, working from within a framework of Discourse Analysis, have also brought
cultural considerations into play, by relating linguistic choices to the dominant ideology
in texts. Pym as cited in (Munday, 2001) adopts the term interdisciplinary, and even