Jeremy Munday, 'An Introduction to Translation Studies

Translation studies is the new academic discipline related to the study of theory
and phenomena of translation .By its nature it is multilingual and also
interdisciplinary, encompassing languages, linguistics, communication studies,
Philosophy and a range of types of cultural studies included modernism and post
modernism as well as sociology and historiography.
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Phenomena: Derived from Greek, first known use in 1605.

Object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition
object of sensory experience as distinguished from spatiotemporal A temporal or
noumenon a
A fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to scientific description and
explanation.

Multilingual: using or able to speak several languages with some facility. . Of or
expressed in several or many languages.
Interdisciplinary:
Combining or involving two or more professions, technologies, departments, or
the like, as in business or industry.
Communication: something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.
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Philosophy: the critical study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular
branch of knowledge, especially with a view to improving or reconstituting them
in Roman Catholic thought that sought to interpret movement the Modernism:
the teachings of the Church in the light of philosophic and scientific conceptions
prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: condemned by Pope Pius X in
1907
Postmodernism: A movement against modernism.