Technical Translation and Descriptive Translation Studies

According to Holmes’ map (1988) which is a thorough map of translation studies, descriptive translation studies is the subdivision of pure research branch. He divided descriptive translationstudies into product-oriented, process-oriented and function-oriented. These 3 can be applied on 6areas that one of them is Text Type Restricted. This researcher tries to investigate the applicability of descriptive translation studies on the translation of technical texts which, according to Reiss and Vermeer (1984), are the type of informative text and to show that how these models can being apply on a translation of a text simultaneously.