Microsoft Word 05 descriptions doc

Skopostheorie has remained relatively indifferent to top-down descriptivism, just 

as structuralist descriptive studies traditionally distanced themselves from the close-up 

dynamics of situations (Lefevere’s 1992 analysis of patronage being a significant 

exception). Both paradigms are strongly relativist; both refuse to see the source text as 

the only factor determining a translation. Yet they have long been looking in separate 

directions.  

If there is a significant historical bridge between the two notions of function, it 

might lie behind the notion of norms.