J.C.Catford's*ALinguisticTheoryofTranslation*(1965),publishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,isaseminalworkinthefieldoftranslationstudies.Itintroducesasystematicandscientificapproachtotranslation,groundedinlinguistictheory.Catforddistinguishesbetweendifferenttypesoftranslation,suchasfullvs.partialtranslationandtotalvs.restrictedtranslation,whileemphasizingtheimportanceofequivalenceatvariouslinguisticlevels(phonological,grammatical,andlexical).Hisworklaidthefoundationforlaterdevelopmentsintranslationtheory,particularlyintheapplicationofstructurallinguisticstotranslationproblems.Thebookremainsinfluentialforitsclearmethodologyandtheoreticalrigor,thoughsomeofitsassumptionshavebeenchallengedbymorerecentapproachesthatconsiderculturalandpragmaticfactorsbeyondpurelinguisticanalysis.
