Reine Meylaerts is Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is currently (2017−2025) Vice-Rector Humanities and Social Sciences. She was review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2011−2017) and former Secretary General (2004−2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). She is the author of various books, including co-editor, with Kobus Marais, of Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (Routledge, 2018).Kobus Marais is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published two monographs, Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014) and A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018), with Routledge. He has also published two edited volumes: Translation Studies Beyond the Postcolony (with Ilse Feinauer, 2017) and Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (with Reine Meylaerts, Routledge 2018).

Once again, Translation Studies is currently in the process of recalibrating itself and its purpose. This collective volume offers a wealth of thought-out contributions to rethinking its conceptual and theoretical foundations. A must-read for anyone interested in the future pathways of the discipline. Kaisa Koskinen, Tampere University, Finland

• List of ContributorsPart I. IntroductionReine Meylaerts and Kobus MaraisPart II. FoundationsChapter 1 Epistemological positionsÁlvaro Marín GarcíaChapter 2 Ontological positionsPiotr Blumczynski and Neil SadlerChapter 3 Positions in research methodologyGabriella Saldanha Part III. Object translationChapter 4 Biosemiotic approachesKalevi KullChapter 5 Approaches to the sociology of knowledgeMaud GonneChapter 6 Ecological approachesCarolyn ShreadPart IV. Representamen translation Chapter 7 Philosophical approachesSalah BasalamahChapter 8 Linguistic approachesKirsten MalmkjaerChapter 9 Functionalist approachesChristiane Nord Chapter 10 Descriptive approachesAlexandra Assis RosaChapter 11 Systems approachesSergei Tyulenev and Wenyan LuoChapter 12 Cultural approachesBrian James Baer Chapter 13 Sociological approachesMoira Inghilleri Chapter 14 Activist approachesJan Buts Chapter 15 Anthropological approachesPeter Flynn Chapter 16 Interdisciplinary approachesCornelia Zwischenberger Chapter 17 Approaches from computational sciencesLynn Bowker Chapter 18 Intersemiotic approachesSusan Petrilli and Margherita ZanolettiChapter 19 A social semiotic multimodal approach to translationElisabetta Adami Chapter 20 Intermedial approachesLars ElleströmPart V. Interpretant translation Chapter 21 Hermeneutic approachesDouglas Robinson Chapter 22 Approaches to knowledge translationKaren BennettChapter 23 Approaches to receptionKeyan G Tomaselli Index

Reine Meylaerts is Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is currently (2017−2025) Vice-Rector Humanities and Social Sciences. She was review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2011−2017) and former Secretary General (2004−2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). She is the author of various books, including co-editor, with Kobus Marais, of Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (Routledge, 2018).Kobus Marais is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published two monographs, Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014) and A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018), with Routledge. He has also published two edited volumes: Translation Studies Beyond the Postcolony (with Ilse Feinauer, 2017) and Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (with Reine Meylaerts, Routledge 2018).

Once again, Translation Studies is currently in the process of recalibrating itself and its purpose. This collective volume offers a wealth of thought-out contributions to rethinking its conceptual and theoretical foundations. A must-read for anyone interested in the future pathways of the discipline. Kaisa Koskinen, Tampere University, Finland

• List of ContributorsPart I. IntroductionReine Meylaerts and Kobus MaraisPart II. FoundationsChapter 1 Epistemological positionsÁlvaro Marín GarcíaChapter 2 Ontological positionsPiotr Blumczynski and Neil SadlerChapter 3 Positions in research methodologyGabriella Saldanha Part III. Object translationChapter 4 Biosemiotic approachesKalevi KullChapter 5 Approaches to the sociology of knowledgeMaud GonneChapter 6 Ecological approachesCarolyn ShreadPart IV. Representamen translation Chapter 7 Philosophical approachesSalah BasalamahChapter 8 Linguistic approachesKirsten MalmkjaerChapter 9 Functionalist approachesChristiane Nord Chapter 10 Descriptive approachesAlexandra Assis RosaChapter 11 Systems approachesSergei Tyulenev and Wenyan LuoChapter 12 Cultural approachesBrian James Baer Chapter 13 Sociological approachesMoira Inghilleri Chapter 14 Activist approachesJan Buts Chapter 15 Anthropological approachesPeter Flynn Chapter 16 Interdisciplinary approachesCornelia Zwischenberger Chapter 17 Approaches from computational sciencesLynn Bowker Chapter 18 Intersemiotic approachesSusan Petrilli and Margherita ZanolettiChapter 19 A social semiotic multimodal approach to translationElisabetta Adami Chapter 20 Intermedial approachesLars ElleströmPart V. Interpretant translation Chapter 21 Hermeneutic approachesDouglas Robinson Chapter 22 Approaches to knowledge translationKaren BennettChapter 23 Approaches to receptionKeyan G Tomaselli Index

Reine Meylaerts is Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is currently (2017−2025) Vice-Rector Humanities and Social Sciences. She was review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies (2011−2017) and former Secretary General (2004−2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). She is the author of various books, including co-editor, with Kobus Marais, of Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (Routledge, 2018).Kobus Marais is Professor of Translation Studies in the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has published two monographs, Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach (2014) and A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality (2018), with Routledge. He has also published two edited volumes: Translation Studies Beyond the Postcolony (with Ilse Feinauer, 2017) and Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies: Methodological Considerations (with Reine Meylaerts, Routledge 2018).

Once again, Translation Studies is currently in the process of recalibrating itself and its purpose. This collective volume offers a wealth of thought-out contributions to rethinking its conceptual and theoretical foundations. A must-read for anyone interested in the future pathways of the discipline. Kaisa Koskinen, Tampere University, Finland

• List of ContributorsPart I. IntroductionReine Meylaerts and Kobus MaraisPart II. FoundationsChapter 1 Epistemological positionsÁlvaro Marín GarcíaChapter 2 Ontological positionsPiotr Blumczynski and Neil SadlerChapter 3 Positions in research methodologyGabriella Saldanha Part III. Object translationChapter 4 Biosemiotic approachesKalevi KullChapter 5 Approaches to the sociology of knowledgeMaud GonneChapter 6 Ecological approachesCarolyn ShreadPart IV. Representamen translation Chapter 7 Philosophical approachesSalah BasalamahChapter 8 Linguistic approachesKirsten MalmkjaerChapter 9 Functionalist approachesChristiane Nord Chapter 10 Descriptive approachesAlexandra Assis RosaChapter 11 Systems approachesSergei Tyulenev and Wenyan LuoChapter 12 Cultural approachesBrian James Baer Chapter 13 Sociological approachesMoira Inghilleri Chapter 14 Activist approachesJan Buts Chapter 15 Anthropological approachesPeter Flynn Chapter 16 Interdisciplinary approachesCornelia Zwischenberger Chapter 17 Approaches from computational sciencesLynn Bowker Chapter 18 Intersemiotic approachesSusan Petrilli and Margherita ZanolettiChapter 19 A social semiotic multimodal approach to translationElisabetta Adami Chapter 20 Intermedial approachesLars ElleströmPart V. Interpretant translation Chapter 21 Hermeneutic approachesDouglas Robinson Chapter 22 Approaches to knowledge translationKaren BennettChapter 23 Approaches to receptionKeyan G Tomaselli Index