TY - JOUR AU - Yousefian, Gilnaz AU - Farahzad, Farzaneh PY - 2022/05/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Adapting Foucault’s Archaeological Notions in Translation Studies JF - Iranian Journal of Translation Studies JA - TS VL - 20 IS - 77 SE - Academic Research Paper DO - UR - https://journal.translationstudies.ir/ts/article/view/957 SP - 11-28 AB - <p>The present paper aimed to shed more light on the horizon of discourse-based historical research in translation by summarizing the findings derived from a close reading of Foucault&rsquo;s important book, <em>The Archaeology of Knowledge, </em>in the researcher&rsquo;s Ph.D. thesis<em>.</em> It strived to set forth a synthesis of Foucault's core archaeological notions and develop a model for translation research based on Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA), to yield some illuminating insights for translation researchers who intend to be engaged with Foucault&rsquo;s approaches to discourse and history. On that account, a discourse-based definition of translation as a set-theoretical function was provided and different steps and constituents for identifying translational discourses and procedures of delimitation were elaborated and re-characterized for translation.</p> ER -