[...] this is a masterly survey of European Translation Studies by one of the key persons who has felt the brunt of the battles raging beside, below, and possibly above her. She has been in the midst of the whole thing. Yet she addresses the issues in a level-headed, orderly, insightful, and wise way; her command of the field is fantastic, her insights beyond compare. To anybody who wishes to get the records straight and the facts right, this is the book. As such it is a must for everyone who feels competent to speak authoritatively about Translation Studies.

- Cay Dollerup, Copenhagen, on www.language-international.net,

The time is ripe for a critical evaluation of the discipline from the perspective of 'turns'. The well compiled subject index and author index are helpful tools to orient the reader in the vast array of issues and names quoted in the study. The volume helps to re-assess some of the major tendencies developed in the past decades and to position them in the still dynamically evolving field of translation studies.

- Michaela Wolf, Universität Graz, in Across Languages and Cultures, Vol. 8(1) 2007,