On technological turn of translation studies: Evidences and influences

Abstract

With the rapid development of translation technology and globalized translation industry, there has emerged a great number of translation software, and the translation practice has been transformed hereby. The objective of this paper is to explore the technological turn of translation studies. This study finds that a technological turn of translation studies has occurred in translation studies. This paper defines the concept of technological turn of translation studies, demonstrates the evidences of the technological turn, investigates the reasons of the technological turn, and analyzes its great influence on translation studies. This paper suggests that the translation academia shall pay attention to the technological turn of translation studies, and make use of translation technologies, and conduct further research in this new field.