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Translation studies can be ''normative'' (prescribing rules for the application of these activities) or ''descriptive''.

As an interdisciplinary discipline, translation studies borrows much from the different fields of study that support translation. These include Comparative Literature , Computer Science , History , Linguistics , Philology , Philosophy , Semiotics , Terminology , and so forth.

Note that occasionally in English, writers will use the term ''traductology'' to refer to ''translation studies''. This usage is often considered erroneous, based on the French name for the discipline, ''la traductologie''.


CULTURAL TRANSLATION

This is a new area of interest in the field of Translation Studies . Cultural translation is a concept used in Cultural Studies to denote the process of transformation, linguistic or otherwise, in a given Culture . The concept uses linguistic translation as a tool or metaphor in analysing the nature of transformation in cultures. For example, Ethnography is considered a translated narrative of an abstract living culture.