Foreword to the Routledge Translation Classics Edition
Kathryn Batchelor

Preface

Acknowlegdements

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

Glossary

Bibliography

Index