function and application of descriptive translation studies 1 introduction the intention of this study is to explore possible advantages of descriptive translation studies as in its application in translation practice and translation analysis since early 20th century, translation studies gradually broke away from the marginal status within other related disciplines and established itself as an empirical science from then on, schools of thought have kept coming out and each claims its legitimacy for existence among these schools is descriptive translation studies (dts) dts approaches translation from an empirical perspective translation is viewed to be a social activity having significant importance in the receiving culture and for the target community therefore, translation is dealt with beyond the linguistic realization and language comparison, and is incorporated in social and cultural context my attention was first directed to dts by its peculiar characteristic of observation, description and explanation the subject is whatever happens in translation practice, from the determination of prospective function of translation to the process of translator’s choice of strategies, brainstorming and the revision, to the final product making appearance in the target community the method of dts is basically descriptive the prescriptive tendency and the problem-soluti
