Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications

by Munday; Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780415584869
• ISBN10: 0415584868
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the dynamic field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and fully up-to-date overview of key movements and theorists within an expanding area of study, this textbook has become a key source for generations of translation students on both professional and university courses. New features in this third edition include: The latest research incorporated into each chapter, including linguistic precursors, models of discourse and text analysis, cultural studies and sociology, the history of translation, and new technologies A new chapter with guidelines on writing reflective translation commentaries and on preparing research projects and dissertations. More examples throughout the text Revised exercises and updated further reading lists throughout. A major new companion web site with video summaries of each chapter, multiple-choice tests, and broader research questions This is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a comprehensive insight into how translation studies has evolved, and is still evolving. It is an invaluable resource for anyone studying this fascinating subject area.

Table of Contents

A visual tour of Introducing Translation Studies	p. x
List of figures and tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Main issues of translation studies	p. 7
The concept of translation	p. 8
What is translation studies?	p. 10
An early history of the discipline	p. 13
The Holmes/Toury 'map'	p. 15
Developments since the 1970s	p. 20
The van Doorslaer 'map'	p. 21
Discipline, interdiscipline or multidiscipline?	p. 22
Translation theory, before the twentieth century	p. 28
Introduction	p. 29
'Word-for-word' or 'sense-for-sense'?	p. 29
Early Chinese and Arabic discourse on translation	p. 32
Humanism and the Protestant Reformation	p. 36
Faithfulness, spirit and truth	p. 39
Early attempts at systematic translation theory: Dryden, Dolet and Tytler	p. 41
Schleiermacher and the valorization of the foreign	p. 45
Translation theory of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain	p. 47
Towards contemporary translation theory	p. 48
Equivalence and equivalent effect	p. 57
Introduction	p. 58
Roman Jakobson: the nature of linguistic meaning and equivalence	p. 58
Nida and 'the science of translating'	p. 61
Newmark: semantic and communicative translation	p. 70
Koller: equivalence relations	p. 73
Later developments in equivalence	p. 76
Studying translation product and process	p. 84
Introduction	p. 85
Vinay and Darbelnet's model	p. 85
Catford and translation 'shifts'	p. 92
Option, markedness and stylistic shifts in translation	p. 95
The cognitive process of translation	p. 97
Ways of investigating cognitive processing	p. 100
Functional theories of translation	p. 110
Introduction	p. 111
Text type	p. 111
Translatorial action	p. 120
Skopos theory	p. 122
Translation-oriented text analysis	p. 126
Discourse and Register analysis approaches	p. 136
Introduction	p. 137
The Hallidayan model of language and discourse	p. 137
House's model of translation quality assessment	p. 140
Baker's text and pragmatic level analysis: a coursebook for translators	p. 144
Hatim and Mason: the levels of context and discourse	p. 150
Criticisms of discourse and Register analysis approaches to translation	p. 153
Systems theories	p. 164
Introduction	p. 165
Polysystem theory	p. 165
Toury and descriptive translation studies	p. 169
Chesterman's translation norms	p. 181
Other models of descriptive translation studies: Lambert and van Gorp and the Manipulation School	p. 182
Cultural and ideological turns	p. 191
Introduction	p. 192
Translation as rewriting	p. 193
Translation and gender	p. 198
Postcolonial translation theory	p. 201
The ideologies of the theorists	p. 207
Other perspectives on translation and ideology	p. 209
The role of the translator: visibility, ethics and sociology	p. 215
Introduction	p. 216
The cultural and political agenda of translation	p. 216
The position and positionality of the literary translator	p. 225
The power network of the publishing industry	p. 228
Discussion of Venuti's work	p. 230
The reception and reviewing of translations	p. 232
The sociology and historiography of translation	p. 234
Philosophical approaches to translation	p. 242
Introduction	p. 243
Steiner's hermeneutic motion	p. 243
Ezra Pound and the energy of language	p. 250
The task of the translator: Walter Benjamin	p. 252
Deconstruction	p. 254
New directions from the new media	p. 267
Introduction	p. 268
Audiovisual translation	p. 268
Localization, globalization and collaborative translation	p. 280
Corpus-based translation studies	p. 283
Research and commentary projects	p. 295
Introduction	p. 296
Consilience in translation studies	p. 296
Translation commentaries	p. 299
Research projects in translation studies	p. 307
Notes	p. 311
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 349
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