Module 2: Introduction to Translation Studies as a discipline
  Lecture 4: Basic Concepts and Terminology of Translation Studies
 

Introduction

Translation Studies is now recognized as a discipline in its own right and like all other disciplines, it has its own set of terms to denote various aspects of the process. We have already seen how the language from which a text is translated is called the Source Language (SL) and the language into which it is translated is called the Target Language (TL).