The Transition of Translation Studies From Traditional Approaches to Modern Theories

Translation studies aim to understand and analyze the process of translation. Various approaches have taken translation as a field for research and analysis, such as linguistic approach, sociolinguistic approach, comparative stylistic approach, discourse analysis approach, text linguistics approach and finally interpretive approach which later formed a standalone theory. Generally, the approach refers to a general orientation of studies from the perspective of a specific field (linguistics, semiotics, pragmatics, etc.). Translation studies, as an independent field of research, were then established based on its own theories, such as: interpretive theory, action theory, skopos theory, game theory and poly-system theory. These theories are conceptual frameworks specifically developed to describe, explain, or model the translated text or the translation process. In this paper, we aim to highlight these approaches and theories through the opinions of some translation theorists and scholars