本书以跨学科的视角重新界定翻译，探索了翻译研究与其他16个学科的互动过程，其中既有对比较文学、语言学等传统基础研究领域的论述，也有对生物符号学、游戏本地化研究和认知神经科学等新兴研究领域的关注，从而让读者更为系统和全面地了解翻译研究的跨学科发展动态。

Disciplinary dialogues with translation studies: The background chapter
History and translation: The event of language
Military history and translation studies: Shifting territories, uneasy borders
Information science, terminology and translation studies: Adaptation, collaboration, integration
Communication studies and translation studies: A special relationship
Sociology and translation studies: Two disciplines meeting
Cognitive neurosciences and cognitive translation studies: About the information processing paradigm
Biosemiotics and translation studies: Challenging “translation”
Adaptation studies and translation studies: Very interactive yet distinct
Computer science and translation: Natural languages and machine translation
Computational linguistics and translation studies: Methods and models
International business, marketing and translation studies: Impacting research into web localization
Multilingualism studies and translation studies: Still a long road ahead
Comparative literature and translation: A cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective
Game localization research and translation studies: Loss and gain under an interdisciplinary lens
Language pedagogy and translation studies: Towards a (re)definition of translation
Gender studies and translation studies: “Entre braguette” – connecting the transdisciplines
Index: Preliminary note by the editors
Name index (countries and languages)
Subject index