Abstract:

Globalization has enhanced the flow of both trade and foreign direct investment between countries, which has also increased the demand for information exchange between different language groups and encouraged the development of translation and interpretation services. In recent years, this quick growth of translation and interpretation services all over the world has expanded demand for translators and interpreters, and has accelerated its industrial agglomeration. The prosperity of translation and interpretation services market and industry in China attracts the attention of domestic scholars. Translation and interpretation services industry does not have an authorized definition though the concept of which has been widely used in academia. As an emerging industry, discussions on this area have covered defining concepts, language consumption and supply, language values, industrial competitiveness, industrial structure, etc. Therefore, this paper reviewed domestic related studies systematically by searching title, abstract and keywords in domestic academic database. According to the research foci and the major findings, a review of the studies indicates several weaknesses of the current studies, namely, lack of authorized definition, quantitative analysis and monotonous research perspective. This paper comments on achievements and problems of the studies with an aim to contribute to the future study in this domain.

Keywords: language services; translation and interpretation services industry; research overview

摘要：

近年来随着经济全球化不断发展,国际贸易流量不断增加,对外直接投资规模不断扩大,提高了对信息交流的需要,刺激了翻译服务的需求和供给。翻译服务市场的繁荣以及由此带来的翻译企业的初步集聚引起了学者们对翻译服务领域和翻译服务产业的关注。然而在现有的研究中,翻译服务产业一词虽被广泛使用但缺乏准确定义。所以本文试图以标题、关键词、摘要的文献检索方法,筛选出国内学者在翻译服务领域的相关研究,并在梳理前人关于翻译服务产业研究的基础上,总结出翻译服务产业的内涵,同时对于前人关于翻译服务产业的研究进行总结、评述,希望能为今后翻译服务产业地位的明确以及翻译服务产业的研究提供帮助。

关键词: 语言服务, 翻译服务产业, 研究现状