Christiane Nord (1997), Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing (Translation Theories Explained 1), 154 pp. — DOI-10.4324/9781315760506 (Routledge reissue, 2014)
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reachable (see the history note). What follows restates the catalogue’s contents and the book’s standard description.
- Contents, from Crossref’s chapter records of the reissue: Historical Overview (10–20); Translating and the Theory of Action (21–32); Basic Concepts of Skopostheorie: Skopos, Aim, Purpose, Intention, Function and … (33–44; Crossref truncates the title); Functionalism in Translator Training (45–85); Functionalism in Literary Translation (86–109); Functionalist Approaches to Interpreting (110–114); Criticisms (115–128); Function plus Loyalty (129–134); Future Perspectives (135–142).
- The standard description, not checked against the text: a translation is judged by whether it serves the purpose (skopos) set for it in the target situation, not by equivalence to the source; Nord adds loyalty, a translator’s responsibility to source author, commissioner and target readers, as a limit on purely purpose-driven translation, and distinguishes documentary from instrumental translation.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 from the manuscript bibliography of 2026-10-09 (work
what-survives-translation) at the owner’s request: the manuscript
considered it and dropped it from the final reference list. See the
curation entry of that day.
Deferred because it was not read. Of the translation-theory works filed
that day, only Jakobson’s essay (LIT-786) could be read.