Systematizing the Dialogue between Translation Studies and Business Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Year 2021, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 81 - 99, 30.06.2021

Hediye Gamze Türkmen

https://doi.org/10.29228/transLogos.32

Abstract

Translation studies has collaborated with various disciplines in context and methodology since its emergence. The research in and methodology of translation studies offer solutions to distinctive issues in various disciplines. However, it is still a key concern whether other disciplines have sufficiently benefited from, utilized, or acknowledged what translation studies has cultivated so far. Each discipline has its specific reasons to interact with translation studies; however, the rationale of business studies is more and more reinforced by the unfolding conditions of globalization, international trade, and e-commerce, which as a whole demolish the borders erected among nations, cultures, and languages. For over two decades, a number of business scholars have highlighted the requirement to practice on theoretical and applied knowledge provided by translation studies to efficiently function in a globalized world with distinctive languages and cultures. Rising number and functions of multinational enterprises require rapid identification and resolution of translation-based problems. As a result, numerous studies to date have revealed the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to efficiently combine the academic disciplines and enable thinking across boundaries. This paper aims to analyze the dialogue between translation studies and business studies while presenting a detailed review of the current literature and opening the issue for further discussion.

Keywords

translation studies, business studies, interdisciplinarity, international business, translation in other disciplines

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