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Reviews on the Turns of Translation Studies and the Definitions of Translation 　　[a]Associate professor， School of Foreign Languages， Guizhou Normal University， Guiyang， China. 　　*Corresponding author. 　　Received 11 November 2014； accepted 15 January 2015 　　Published online 26 February 2015 　　Abstract 　　With the development of such disciplines as linguistics， literature， sociology， anthropology， psychology and the rise of deconstructionism， post colonialism， feminism， more and more theories are applied to translation studies since the 1950s. The introduction of the theories from various kinds of thoughts and disciplines not only offers new perspectives for translation studies， but also brings new turns to it. As a specific turn of translation studies is one of the nuclear parts of translation studies， the study of translation and its turns attracts some scholars’ attentions. Abroad， the representative figures are André Lefevere， Susan Bassnett， Mary Snell-Hornby， Jeremy Munday， and Edwin Gentzler and so on. In China， there are few scholars such as Wang Ning， Lü Jun， Xie Tianzheng have ever studied on the turns in translation studies. Owing to the role translation definition plays in translation studies as well as the turns of the methodology， the aspects of the research background are viewed in this paper： the studies on the translation turns and the definitions of translation at home and abroad. Based on literature review and comparative analysis， the paper finally comes to the conclusion： although translation studies have seen a great number of turns， few scholars studied turns of translation systematically and showed interests in the influence of the translation definitions on the turns. 　　Key words： Turns of translation studies； Definition of translation； Translation studies 　　INTRODUCTION 　　Retrospect to the history of contemporary translation studies， though theorists have proposed many turns and definitions for translation， there were few systemi