Abstract:

The interdisciplinariness of translation studies determines that the research on translation process need borrow the results and methods from other disciplines. Early TPR mainly focused on the description of translation experiences, procedures and steps, lacking in the rationality and science on the whole. The interdisciplinary TPR started with the beginning of modern translation studies, which has been developing fast. Some achievements have been made in China due to the introduction of other disciplines and the influence of the western research in this field. The paper makes a survey of the interdisciplinaryTPR from three interdisciplinary perspectives: linguistics, psychology, and document. On the basis of the findings from these three perspectives, some tentative reflections are put forward for the sake of current TPR in China. This survey is intended to give a bird’s eye view of TPR with interdisciplinary background from the perspective of comparative translation studies in hope of offering some inspirations for the current TPR in China.