Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2015
XIII, 276 pages
978-1-137-02548-7 (ISBN)
Description
The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIII, 276 p.
File size
1,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-02548-7 (9781137025487)
DOI
10.1057/9781137025487
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
08/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Person
Mona Baker, University of Manchester, UK
Martha Cheung, Baptist University, Hong Kong
Marie-Noelle Guillot, University of East Anglia, UK
Sandra Halverson, Norges Handelshoyskole, Norway
Cees Koster, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Svenja Kranich, Universität Mainz, Germany
Monika Krein-Kühle, Fachhochschule Köln, Germany
Ian Mason, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Luis Pérez-González, University of Manchester, UK
Henry Widdowson, Universität Wien, Austria
Federico Zanettin, Universita Di Perugia, Italy
Content
Introduction; Juliane House 2. Translation and Equivalence; Monika Krein-Kühle 3. Discourse and Translation - A Social Perspective; Ian Mason 4. Chinese Discourse on Translation as Intercultural Communication: The Story of 'jihe' (??, geometry? mathematics?); Martha P. Y. Cheung 5. Cross-cultural Pragmatics and Translation: The Case of Museum Texts as Interlingual Representation; Marie-Noëlle Guillot 6. Translations as a Locus of Language Contact; Svenja Kranich 7. Reorienting Translation Studies: Cognitive Approaches and the Centrality of the Translator; Sandra L. Halverson 8. Literary Translation; Cees Koster 9. Translation as Re-narration; Mona Baker 10. Corpora in Translation; Federico Zanettin 11. Translation and New(s) Media: Participatory Subtitling Practices in Networked Mediascapes; Luis Pérez-González 12. The Role of Translation in Language Learning and Teaching; H. G. Widdowson 13. Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present; Juliane House ?
