A Concept’s Coming of Age: Developments in the Use of the Concept of Culture in Translation Studies

The concept of ‘culture’ has been extensively used in Translation Studies, but not always in the same way. This article uses the online Translation Studies Bibliography and its culture-related keywords to discover an evolutionary line in the different uses. The different meanings and concepts of cultures as put forward by Sewell are used to describe the diachronicity: first a relatively unproblematic use at the time of the ‘cultural turn’ in the 80s and 90s, later an abundant use of the term ‘cultures’ in case studies focusing on binary source-target perspectives, and recently also a more abstract use as part of theory transfer and theory exchange with Cultural Studies.status: publishe