1st Edition

Pragmatic Translation Studies Principles, Strategies, and Techniques

By Fang Mengzhi Copyright 2025
348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book aims to strengthen the link between applied translation theory and practice by elucidating translation principles, strategies, and techniques within a unified theoretical framework. The author encapsulates the development of translation studies and its terminological system into a tripartite structure that unifies the study of translation through macro, meso, and micro approaches. The... Read more

1. Overview of Translation Studies  2. Market, Professionalism, and Ethics  3. Characteristics and Principles of Pragmatic Translation  4. Theoretical Systems and Categories of Pragmatic Translation  5. The Rationale and Characteristics of Translation Strategies  6. Class Clustering of Translation Strategies  7. Rationale and Characteristics of Translation Techniques  8. Choosing Words and Refining Sentences  9. Forming a Text  10. Terminology and Translation  11. Text Classification and Translation  12. The History and Current Situation of Pragmatic Translation in China

Biography

Fang Mengzhi is a professor at Shanghai University, China. He began his career as a sci-tech translator and later switched to language teaching and initiated pragmatic translation studies in China. His academic interests are translation studies and lexicography.