Research Trends in Theses of Doctoral Candidates of Translation Studies in Iran:
An Overview Study
Abstract
The present study investigated the orientations of Iranian doctoral candidates of Translation Studies between 2011 and 2024 based on the keywords used within their thesis titles. A data bank of one hundred and eight theses from three universities was established. Then, using Customer Magnetism software, the most frequent words, and their lemma were extracted from 700 keywords used in thesis titles and converted into a more compact list of keywords through human processing. Moreover, in some cases, the researcher investigated the entire title or even studied the abstract for more assurance. The findings indicated ten main keyword categories with the highest frequency. The results showed that most doctoral dissertation titles of the translation studies in Iran based on the branches and sub-branches in Holmes’ map of translation studies (1988) are product-oriented DTS, function-oriented DTS, and translator-training-oriented applied TS. The results also revealed that four remain untouched in Iran out of twelve key areas in Translation Studies presented by Williams and Chesterman (2002). Further scholars are advised to investigate why thesis topics in other areas have been neglected. This study is expected to improve the progress of TS research in Iran.
Keywords:
Doctoral theses, Keyword extraction, Translation studies trendsReferences
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