Teaching and researching translation

by Hatim, Basil

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Full title :Teaching and researching translation

Summary

Teaching & Researching Translation provides an authoritative and critical account of the main ideas and concepts, competing issues, and solved and unsolved questions involved in Translation Studies. This book provides an up-to-date, accessible account of the field, focusing on the main challenges encountered by translation practitioners and researchers. Basil Hatim also provides readers and users with the tools they need to carry out their own practice-related research in this burgeoning new field. This second edition has been fully revised and updated through-out to include: The most up-to-date research in a number of key areas A new introduction, as well as a new chapter on the translation of style which sets out a new agenda for research in this field Updated examples and new concepts Expanded references, bibliography and further reading sections, as well as new links and resources Armed with this expert guidance, students of translation, researchers and practitioners, or anyone with a general interest in this fast-developing field can explore for themselves a range of exemplary practical applications of research into key issues and questions. Basil Hatim is Professor of Translation & Linguistics at the American University of Sharjah, UAE and theorist and practitioner in English/Arabic translation. He has worked and lectured widely at universities throughout the world, and has published extensively on Applied Linguistics, Text Linguistics, Translation/Interpreting and TESOL.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

Notes

General Editors' Preface Author's acknowledgements About this book Section I: Translation studies: History, basic concepts and key issues in research 1 Translation studies and applied linguistics 1.1 Applied linguistics and the translation analyst 1.2 Reflective Practice 1.3 Action research: The theory-practice cycle 1.4 Translation studies: A house of many rooms 2 From linguistic systems to cultures in contact 2.1 Formal equivalence 2.2 Bridging cultural and linguistic differences 3 Equivalence: Pragmatic and textual criteria 3.1 Opening up to pragmatics 3.2 Textuality and equivalence 3.3 Translation and relevance 4 Cultural studies and translator invisibility 4.1 Translator invisibility 4.2 Deconstruction: The plurality of meaning 4.3 Gendered translation: Production not reproduction 5 From word to text and beyond 5.1 Translation as metatext 5.2 Translation: Shaping context and history 6 Literary and cultural constraints 6.1 Polysystem theory and translation 6.2 The Manipulationists 6.3 Translation purpose 6.4 The circle closes: Linkages to other disciplines Section II: Research models 7 Register-oriented research models 7.1 The age of dichotomies 7.2 Skopos and translation strategy 7.3 Text reception and translation strategy 7.4 Quality assessment and translation strategy 7.5 Translation strategy dichotomies assessed 8 The pragmatics turn in research 8.1 Translation strategy and Relevance Theory 8.2 Translating the direct way 8.3 Communicative clues 8.4 The pragmatic view of translation strategy assessed 9 Focus on the text 9.1 Text processing and the process of translation 9.2 The genre-text-discourse triad 10 Translation and ideology 10.1 The ideology of vs. in translation 10.2 The ideology of translation: A feminist perspective 10.3 The North American scene 10.4 The ideology of translation: A feminist perspective ...

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (326 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1315832909, 9781315832906, 9781317860273, 1317860276, 9781317860259, 131786025X, 9781317860266, 1317860268, 9781138169784, 1138169781, 1408297639, 9781408297636
DOI:10.4324/9781315832906
oclc:ocn900754442
LC Classification:P306.5
Dewey Decimal:418.02072

Section 1. Translation studies : history, basic concepts and key issues in research -- section 2. Research models -- section 3. Developing practitioner research -- section 4. Links and resources.

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