Holmes in his paper 'The name and nature of translation studies', which is considered a foundational statement for the discipline. The term 'translation studies' was coined by the Amsterdam-based American scholar James S. These include comparative literature, computer science, history, linguistics, philology, philosophy, semiotics, and terminology. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the various fields of study that support translation.

Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. For a journal, see Translation Studies (journal).