About the Book

“This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of all areas and issues in translation studies and is therefore highly relevant to someone looking for a broad understanding of translation theory… It contains many practical exercises and readings to help the student explore the issues and theories and improve their practical translation skills at the same time.”
Malcolm Williams, University of Ottawa

“Provides a much needed link between textbooks and more theoretical works in the field.”
Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Salford

Translation:

• examines the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, including semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism.
• draws on a wide range of languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic
• explores material from a variety of sources, such as the Internet, advertisements, religious texts, literary and technical texts.
• gathers together influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including James S. Holmes, George Steiner, Vinay and Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and Ernst-August Gutt.

Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Translation is an essential resource for students and researchers of English language and Applied Linguistics.