4th Edition
Becoming a Translator An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Preface to the fourth edition
Introduction
1 External knowledge: the user’s view
2 Internal knowledge: the translator’s view
3 The process of translation
4 Drawing on experience: how being a translator is more than just being good at languages
5 Starting with people: social interaction as the first key focus of translators’ experience of the world
6 Working with people: the workplace as the interactive setting for specialized terminologies
7 Translation as an operation performed in and on languages
8 Translation as an operation performed in and on multimedia
9 Working and understanding through social networks
10 The impact on translation of culture(s)
11 When habit fails
References
Index
Biography
Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has been a freelance translator of technical and literary texts from Finnish to English since 1975. He is also one of the world's leading translation scholars, the author of The Dao of Translation (2015), Translation and Empire (2016), Critical Translation Studies (2017), and Translationality (2017), and editor of Western Translation Theory From Herodotus to Nietzsche (2015) and The Pushing Hands of Translation and its Theory (2016) (all published by Routledge).
In this revised version, Robinson’s thought reflects the complexity of doing and studying translation even better than in previous editions. Linking phenomenology, cognitive science and semiotics, amongst others, with lived experience is what makes this a great textbook. It guides without imposing rules.
Kobus Marais, University of the Free State, South Africa
Robinson’s new and much revised volume is a thought-provoking and rich introduction to the theory and practice of translation. This edition brings the discussion up to the present, engaging with social media discussions and multimedia communication. The material for discussion and student follow-up is ideal for teaching purposes and should serve to spark conversations and challenge students across the globe.
Sandra L. Halverson, University of Agder, Norway
A timely overhaul in keeping with recent developments and the rapidly changing landscape of scholarship in translation studies. The book continues to be an invaluable contribution to translation pedagogy, theory and practice. A must have for scholars, students and practitioners alike.
Paul F. Bandia, Concordia University, Canada
