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In the academia, translation history imposed itself as a discipline starting with the second part of the 20th century, along with the increasing interest in traductology and awareness of the need to study with appropriate scientific tools a secular practice which has contributed decisively to the emergence of literary works in vernacular languages and the creation of a common European culture. Historical research on translating can be identified in the works of literary language historians, literary historians or comparatists, even if the study of translational activity was not the target they were aiming at, the priority being rather to obtain valid arguments in supporting or contrasting interpretive hypotheses concerning phenomena of linguistic and literary influence. Interdisciplinary by excellence, the translation history has until recently been the Cinderella of the academic environment, being assigned an instrumental role. In this context, the emergence of the second and revised edition of Idei și metaidei traductive românești (secolele XVI–XXI) [Romanian Translational Ideas and Metatraslational Ideas (16th– 21st centuries)] shows the consolidation of a process of self-determination for a discipline whose study can contribute to a better understanding of the phenomena of influence and linguistic, literary and cultural interference. This book by Georgiana Lungu-Badea is a translational research whose main purpose is to circumscribe and illustrate a complex phenomenon, with profound implications in the evolution of Romanian literary language and native literature, by establishing “an explicit connection between, on the one hand, early inductive translational theories from the 18th and 19th centuries, the borrowing of Western theoretical models (cultural, historical, etc.) and the deductive linguistic theories, and, on the other hand, the branches of the traductology: history, theory, practice theory, translation philosophy” (p. 5). The results find multiple applications, from the formation of future translators, to the implicit establishment of essential deontological reference points for researchers interested in studying the history of Romanian translation. As the author herself notes, we are dealing with a synthesis work (p. 5), the fruit of a long and intense research activity, of a mission assumed to clarify confusions of metalinguistic nature that can be seen in some translation studies in Romanian and the intention to revise some previous ideas from the perspective of the new approaches of the translational and traductological phenomenon: “we do not find it superfluous to recall that terms like traductiv or traducțional (Emil Iordache) and traductologic are not synonyms. [...] Between the terms that make up the aforementioned cleavage—terms derived from the dichotomy practice vs. (grosso modo) theory—there is the same difference that distinguishes the concepts of translation and traductology” (p. 5–6). Essential in this approach is the integration of the Romanian translational work and reflection into the European context. Thus, Georgiana Lungu-Badea gives us a tentative insight into translational and discursive practices with regard to translation, facilitating access to their understanding through recourse to the diachronic and intercultural dimension. Since the author is pointing to the mapping of a dynamic process, she favours an argumentative paradigm, considered indispensable for the identification and outline of the “guidelines of the pre-traductological thinking in the Romanian cultural space” (p. 14). The book index reflects the dialectical intent and permanent interest in the latest trends in translational research, providing the reader with a “comparative and contrastive-comparative” study of “inductive and empirical translational theories of the 19th century that had a clear descriptive inclination and [...] the linguistic deductive

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Georgiana Lungu-Badea, Idei și metaidei traductive românești (secolele XVI–XXI), Ediția a II-a, revăzută și adăugită, Editura Universității de Vest, Timișoara, 2015, 335 p.