Translation Studies: An Introduction to the History and Development of (Audiovisual) Translation

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the history of translation and the birth of translation studies which also introduces the descriptive nature of the polysystem theory, and the concept of norms proposed by Gideon Toury. In addition, it makes reference to several theoretical models for studying translation as a discipline. It alludes to the five approaches which originated from the theory of translation in order to pay special attention to the socio-cultural approach which encompasses, among others, the theory of skopos, to finally focus on the modality of audiovisual translation, a nascent field of studytranslation studies, literal translation, adaptation, audiovisual translation