Evaluation in Translation: Critical points of translator decision-making

by Munday; Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780415577694
• ISBN10: 0415577691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this book, Jeremy Munday presents advances towards a general theory of evaluation in translator decision-making that will be useful to translator and interpreter training and to descriptive translation analysis. By 'evaluation' the author refers to how a translator's subjective stance manifests itself linguistically in a text. In a world where translation and interpreting function as a prism through which opposing personal and political views enter a target culture, it is crucial to investigate how such views are processed and sometimes subjectively altered by the translator. To this end, the book focuses on the translation process (rather than product) and strives to identify more precisely those points where the translator is most likely to express judgment or evaluation. The translations studied cover a range of languages, accompanied by English glosses to facilitate comprehension by readers. This is key reading for postgraduates studying translation theory within Translation Studies and Interpretation.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Evaluation and translation	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Ideology and axiology	p. 12
Systemic functional linguistics and the value orientation of language	p. 13
Ideology and axiology in translation	p. 16
Appraisal theory and the concept of evaluation	p. 20
The system of appraisal	p. 22
Direct, or 'inscribed', attitude	p. 24
Indirect, or invoked, attitude	p. 27
Evoked attitude	p. 27
Provoked attitude	p. 29
Studies of attitude in translation	p. 31
Graduation and engagement	p. 33
Evaluation as an integrated complex	p. 34
Evaluation, textual voice and evidentiality	p. 35
Evaluation and reading positions	p. 37
Evaluation and 'critical points' in translator and interpreter decision-making	p. 40
The interpretation of political speech	p. 42
Introduction	p. 42
The broadcast context	p. 42
The expression of appraisal	p. 44
Affect	p. 45
Judgement	p. 48
Appreciation	p. 54
Provoked evaluation - lexical metaphors	p. 57
Indirect evaluation and the question of translation	p. 62
Graduation	p. 65
Counter-expectancy indicators	p. 66
Engagement	p. 67
Deictic positioning	p. 68
Translation of pronouns	p. 73
Spatio-temporal deixis and identity	p. 74
Reading position and voice of the interpreter	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 78
Transcript of Obama inaugural speech, 20 January 2009	p. 80
The view from the technical translators	p. 84
Introduction	p. 84
The perception of the professionals	p. 84
Text-type and explicitation	p. 89
The Chinese context	p. 90
KudoZ™	p. 92
SENSE	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 102
The literary translator and reviser	p. 104
Introduction	p. 104
Revisions of a classical text - Agricola and Germania	p. 105
The manuscript revised	p. 106
Evaluative keys and reading position	p. 109
Revision between author, translator and reader - Mario Vargas Llosa	p. 110
Correspondence and queries	p. 111
Indirect, associative evaluation	p. 112
The reader-author relationship	p. 113
Lexical alternatives in the essay genre	p. 118
The practice of self-revision - David Bellos' translation of Georges Perec	p. 121
The detail of self-revision	p. 122
Revision and evaluation at different stages	p. 128
Conclusion	p. 129
Translation variation and its link to attitude	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
The texts: Borges and his translators	p. 132
Analysis of the Yates and Hurley translations of 'Emma Zunz'	p. 134
The experiment	p. 140
Invariance	p. 140
Linguistic variation in attitude and appraisal	p. 143
Attitude-rich words	p. 146
Genre differences	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 152
'Emma Zunz' extracts translated by Yates and Hurley	p. 153
Evaluation in translation - some concluding thoughts	p. 155
The results of the case studies	p. 155
Reading positions	p. 158
For the future	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 185
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