RT info:eu-repo/semantics/contributionToPeriodical T1 Translation criticism as an independent area of study: developing a framework for objective criticism A1 Valero Garcés, Carmen K1 Traducción e interpretación K1 Criticismo AB 'Translation Studies' is an ambiguous concept. It contains at the sametime the idea of translation theory, translation production and that oftranslation product. As production, if we consider texts as evidence of acommunicative transaction taking place within a social framework, the wayis open to a view of translating which is not restricted to a particular field.We could mention literary translation, technical translation or include suchdiverse activities as film subtitling and dubbing, simultaneous interpreting,abstracting and summarising, translating and adapting for children,advertising or cartoon translation to name but a few. As a product the actualtranslations, the regularities and irregularities they evince, the teaching oftranslation and the practice of translation criticism are areas that can easily beincluded in this general perspective, even though they are quite different PB Universidad de León SN 1132-3191 YR 2017 FD 2017-06-20 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6375 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6375 DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León RD 05-may-2024