Exploring the Fundamental Features of Translation

Exploring the Fundamental Features of Translation
Author: Nabil Al-Awawdeh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527519791

This book is a detailed guidebook designed for students, teachers, and specialists in translation who are looking to improve their comprehension of translation problems from an introductory level all the way up to advanced subjects. The significance of the book lies in its adoption of a bottom-up strategy to translation issues. This means that it does not principally confront translation topics as challenges and solutions, but rather as major concerns for translation students and researchers. The guidebook covers important subjects that are derived from both historical and contemporary considerations regarding translation, each of its six segments addressing translation issues at all levels of complexity. It will simplify the research work of any user.

Exploring Translation Theories

Exploring Translation Theories
Author: Anthony Pym
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317934318

Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory. The book covers theories of equivalence, purpose, description, uncertainty, localization, and cultural translation. This second edition adds coverage on new translation technologies, volunteer translators, non-lineal logic, mediation, Asian languages, and research on translators’ cognitive processes. Readers are encouraged to explore the various theories and consider their strengths, weaknesses, and implications for translation practice. The book concludes with a survey of the way translation is used as a model in postmodern cultural studies and sociologies, extending its scope beyond traditional Western notions. Features in each chapter include: An introduction outlining the main points, key concepts and illustrative examples. Examples drawn from a range of languages, although knowledge of no language other than English is assumed. Discussion points and suggested classroom activities. A chapter summary. This comprehensive and engaging book is ideal both for self-study and as a textbook for Translation theory courses within Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics.

Why Translation Matters

Why Translation Matters
Author: Edith Grossman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300163037

"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"."--Jacket.

Fundamentals of Translation

Fundamentals of Translation
Author: Sonia Colina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-04-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107035392

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic theory of translation, with numerous examples and exercises.

A Companion to Translation Studies

A Companion to Translation Studies
Author: Sandra Bermann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 796
Release: 2014-01-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118616154

This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes Features new work from well-known scholars Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field A thorough introduction to translation studies for both undergraduates and graduates Multi-disciplinary relevance for students with diverse career goals

Children’s Literature in Translation

Children’s Literature in Translation
Author: Jan Van Coillie
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9462702225

For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.

Translation

Translation
Author: Basil Hatim
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780415283069

Provides support for advanced study of translation. Examines the theory and practice of translation from many angles, drawing on a wide range of languages and exploring a variety of sources. Concludes with readings from key figures.

A Comparative Study on the Translation of Detective Stories from a Systemic Functional Perspective

A Comparative Study on the Translation of Detective Stories from a Systemic Functional Perspective
Author: Yan Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9811575452

This book presents a corpus-based investigation of verbal projection in detective stories and their translations. Adopting both diachronic and synchronic approaches to compare two different Chinese translations, the book is one of the first attempts to conduct a comprehensive lexico-grammatical, logico-semantic and rhetorical, as well as contextual analysis of verbal projection in the Chinese context, especially the classical Chinese language context. Further, it studies the differences and similarities of different translators’ choices from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. Given its scope, the book is relevant for all those interested in functional linguistics, translation studies and detective stories.

Introducing Translation Studies

Introducing Translation Studies
Author: Jeremy Munday
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135198195

This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. Jeremy Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types are analyzed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features: a table introducing key concepts an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories illustrative texts with translations a chapter summary discussion points and exercises. Including a general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites for further information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.