Translation and Cognition

Translation and Cognition
Author: Gregory M. Shreve
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010-05-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027288119

Translation and Cognition assesses the state of the art in cognitive translation and interpreting studies by examining three important trends: methodological innovation, the evolution of research design, and the continuing integration of translation process research results with the core findings of the cognitive sciences. Several of the volume’s essays focus on fruitful new process research methods, such as eye tracking and keystroke logging that have arisen to supplement the use of think-aloud protocols. Another set of contributions investigates how some central theories, concepts, and methods from our sister disciplines of psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience can inform our understanding of translation processes and their development in novices and experts. Yet another set of essays argues that methodological innovation and integration with the cognitive sciences can lead to more robust research designs and theoretical frameworks to explain the intricacies of cognitive processing during translation and interpreting. Thus, this timely volume actively demonstrates that a new theoretical and methodological consensus in cognitive translation studies is emerging, promising to greatly improve the quality, verifiability, and generalizability of translation process research.

Translation and Gender

Translation and Gender
Author: Luise Von Flotow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134959931

The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the 20th century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis and criticism and the simultaneous emphasis on culture in translation studies, translation has become an important site for the exploration of the cultural impact of gender and the gender-specific influence of cuture. With the dismantling of 'universal' meaning and the struggle for women's visibility in feminist work, and with the interest in translation as a visible factor in cultural exchange, the linking of gender and translation has created fertile ground for explorations of influence in writing, rewriting and reading. Translation and Gender places recent work in translation against the background of the women's movement and its critique of 'patriarchal' language. It explains translation practices derived from experimental feminist writing, the development of openly interventionist translation strategies, the initiative to retranslate fundamental texts such as the Bible, translating as a way of recuperating writings 'lost' in patriarchy, and translation history as a means of focusing on women translators of the past.

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.

Traducción, mediación, adaptación

Traducción, mediación, adaptación
Author: Eva Parra Membrives
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-05-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3865964990

"Los estudios traductológicos han avanzado considerablemente en los últimos años, tanto en materia de teoría de la traducción como en avances técnicos, convirtiéndose el traductor especializado en un personaje cada vez más relevante en nuestro actual contexto social. El presente volumen pretende mostrar algunos de los avances más destacados en el ámbito de la investigación traductológica, presentando nuevas ideas en torno a las múltiples posibilidades que ofrece esta disciplina. Los estudios aquí recogidos abarcan así desde reflexiones en torno al papel que debe desempeñar el traductor como mediador cultural que es, a la adecuada traslación de contenidos en casos de diferencias geográficas o temporales muy acusadas de los textos con los que se trabaja, pasando por propuestas de uso de herramientas tecnológicas innovadoras."_Contracub.

Charting the Future of Translation History

Charting the Future of Translation History
Author: Paul F. Bandia
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006-07-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0776615610

Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research area. This book aims at claiming such autonomy for the field with a renewed vigour. It seeks to explore issues related to methodology as well as a variety of discourses on history with a view to laying the groundwork for new avenues, new models, new methods. It aspires to challenge existing theoretical and ideological frameworks. It looks toward the future of history. It is an attempt to address shortcomings that have prevented translation history from reaching its full disciplinary potential. From microhistory, archaeology, periodization, to issues of subjectivity and postmodernism, methodological lacunae are being filled. Contributors to this volume go far beyond the text to uncover the role translation has played in many different times and settings such as Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle-east and Asia from the 6th century to the 20th. These contributions, which deal variously with the discourses on methodology and history, recast the discipline of translation history in a new light and pave the way to the future of research and teaching in the field.

100 Years of Conference Interpreting

100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Author: Kilian G. Seeber
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-06
Genre: Forums (Discussion and debate)
ISBN: 9781527567191

When Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Georges Clemenceau met in Versailles in January 1919, they ushered in the modern era of multilateral diplomacy andâ "perhaps inadvertentlyâ "laid the foundation for a new profession. Indeed, communication among these statesmen was only possible thanks to the first conference interpreters. For the following 100 years, these interpreters would become a permanent fixture at all international multilateral conferences. As we celebrate one century of conference interpreting, this volume takes stock of some of the most important milestones throughout the history of this exceptional profession and looks at its future at a time when the global COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world of international meetings. Thanks to its refreshingly interactive format, this volume gives a voice to different stakeholders in the world of conference interpreting today, including practitioners, managers, researchers and trainers. The result is a surprisingly candid and critical discussion of some of the most hotly debated topics in the world of conference interpreting.

The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation

The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation
Author: Jorge Díaz-Cintas
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902721686X

While complementing other volumes in the BTL series in its exploration of the state of the art of translator training, this collection of essays is solely focused on audiovisual translation, one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the translation discipline. The book offers an easily accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the fascinating subject of translating films, video games and other audiovisual material. Offering a balance between theory and practice, the main aim of this volume is to provide a wealth of teaching and learning ideas in areas such as subtitling, dubbing, and voice-over without forgetting the newer fields of subtitling for the deaf and audio description for the blind. The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation comes with an accompanying CD-Rom, highlighting its fundamentally interactive approach, and the activities proposed can be adapted to different learning environments and used with different language combinations.

Interacciones

Interacciones
Author: María Ángeles Recio Ariza
Publisher: Studien zur romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und interkulturellen Kommunikation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: German language
ISBN: 9783631659755

Los temas tratados en este volumen son los siguientes: Didáctica de la traducción, Traducción y Lingüística, Traducción literaria, Traducción especializada, Teoría de la traducción y de la interpretación. Die in diesem Band behandelten Themen sind: Didaktik der Übersetzung, Übersetzung und Linguistik, Literarische Übersetzung, Fachübersetzung, Theorie des Dolmetschens und Übersetzens.

New directions in corpus-based translation studies

New directions in corpus-based translation studies
Author: Claudio Fantinuoli
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3944675835

Corpus-based translation studies has become a major paradigm and research methodology and has investigated a wide variety of topics in the last two decades. The contributions to this volume add to the range of corpus-based studies by providing examples of some less explored applications of corpus analysis methods to translation research. They show that the area keeps evolving as it constantly opens up to different frameworks and approaches, from appraisal theory to process-oriented analysis, and encompasses multiple translation settings, including (indirect) literary translation, machine (assisted)-translation and the practical work of professional legal translators. The studies included in the volume also expand the range of application of corpus applications in terms of the tools used to accomplish the research tasks outlined.

Dictionary of Translation Studies

Dictionary of Translation Studies
Author: Mark Shuttleworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317642341

Published at a time of unprecedented growth of interest in translation, the Dictionary of Translation Studies aims to present the insights of a number of different approaches to translation in an unbiased, non-partisan way. With more than 300 articles, this essential volume provides the reader with a snapshot of a rapidly developing discipline, based on work produced in serveral languages. With a clear, easy-to-follow layout, the Dictionary provides a comprehensive and highly accessible survey of key terms and concepts (such as Abusive Translation, Equivalence, Informationsangebot, Minimax Principle, Texteme and Thick Translation), types of activity (Autotranslation, Dubbing, Signed Language Interpreting), and schools and approaches (Leipzig School, Manipulation School, Nitra School). Each term is presented within the context in which it first occurred and is given a definition which is both clear and informative. Major entries include a discussion of relevant viewpoints as well as comments on how the usage and application of the term have developed subsequent to its coining. In addition, all entries provide suggestions for further reading, and there is an extensive bibliography included at the end. This is an indispensable tool for anyone studying or teaching translation at university level.