1st Edition

Unity in Diversity Recent Trends in Translation Studies

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy, software localization and lexicography. There is evidently great diversity in translation... Read more
partOne The Nature of Translation; Chapter 1 Dis-Unity and Diversity, Luise von Flotow; Chapter 2 Translation, Autobiography, Bilingualism, Susan Ingram; partTwo Translation in National Context; Chapter 3 Antigone, Ian Brown, Ceri Sherlock; Chapter 4 'Genuine' and 'Fictitious' Translations of Science Fiction & Fantasy in Hungary, AnikÓo SohÁar; Chapter 5 Theory and Practice, Paul St-Pierre; Chapter 6 Marginal Forms of Translation in Japan, Judy Wakabayashi; Chapter 7 Choices and Constraints in Screen Translation, Eithne O'Connell; partThree Descriptive Translation Studies; Chapter 8 Six Subtitlers '” Six Subtitling Texts, Irena Kovacic; Chapter 9 Parallel Texts in Translation, Christina SchÄffner; Chapter 10 Bilingual Reference Corpora for Translators and Translation Studies, Carol Peters, Eugenio Picchi; Chapter 11 The English Comparable Corpus, Sara Laviosa; partFour Computer-Aided Translation; Chapter 12 Practical Experience of Computer-Aided Translation Tools in the Software Localization Industry, Sharon O'Brien; Chapter 13 Translation Memories: Insights and Prospects, Matthias Heyn; Chapter 14 Consistency and Variation in Technical Translations, Magnus Merkel; Chapter 15 The Problem with Machine Translation, Reinhard SchÄler; Chapter 16 Machine Translation as a Model of Human Translation, Paul Bennett; partFive Interpreting Studies; Chapter 17 Unity in Diversity, Franz PÖchhacker; Chapter 18 Language Direction and Source Text Complexity, Jorma Tommola, Marketta HelevÄ; Chapter 19 User Responses to Simultaneous Interpreting, Anna-Riitta Vuorikoski;

Biography

Bowker, Lynne; Cronin, Michael; Kenny, Dorothy; Pearson, Jennifer