As the pioneering effort in applying sociological theories to translation studies, the book Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies: Translation in Society systematically constructs translation as a social system from the perspective of Lumann's Social System Theory ( SST) , offering us some inspiring ideas and thoughts about the sociological property and complexity of translation.
WANG Jun-Ping.
Translation as a social system: A review of Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies[J]. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice. 2015, 1(3): 89