Teaching and Researching Translation

by Hatim, Basil

• ISBN13: 9780582328990
• ISBN10: 0582328993
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-15
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Summary

Translating and interpreting studies is a burgeoning discipline which has seen a great deal of research activity and a large number of publications over recent years. Teaching and Researching Translation reports dispassionately on what has been happening in both the theory and practice of translation and interpreting, and introduces students and teachers of translation to the intricacies of the process and the diverse demands of the profession. The field of translation studies is first viewed from above, with the major paradigms being identified. Basic theoretical assumptions are examined and influential modes of thinking about translation are assessed. In section two important research trends in the area are outlined as they have emerged over the years in a variety of professional settings. This includes questions that research has answered and those which are still unanswered. Above all, the various lines of enquiry are scrutinised from the point of view of their relevance to further research and their potential to address a range of practical concerns. The final section offers lists of important resources for the translator, a glossary of terms and useful internet links. This section can also be found on the Teaching and Researching Translation companion web site. Teaching and Researching Translation will be welcomed by translation and interpreting students, teachers and practitioners, and students of Applied Linguistics and advanced TESOL both

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface	ix
Author's acknowledgements	xi
About this book	xiii
Section I: Translation studies: History, basic concepts and key issues in research	1	(84)
Translation studies and applied linguistics	3	(9)
Applied linguistics and the translation analyst	4	(2)
Action research: The theory-practice cycle	6	(2)
Translation studies: A house of many rooms	8	(4)
From linguistic systems to cultures in contact	12	(14)
Formal equivalence	13	(5)
Bridging cultural and linguistic differences	18	(8)
Equivalence: Pragmatic and textual criteria	26	(17)
Opening up to pragmatics	26	(5)
Textuality and equivalence	31	(4)
Translation and relevance	35	(8)
Cultural studies and translator invisibility	43	(13)
Translator invisibility	45	(3)
Deconstruction: The plurality of meaning	48	(3)
Gendered translation: Production not reproduction	51	(5)
From word to text and beyond	56	(10)
Translation as metatext	57	(4)
Translation: Shaping context and history	61	(5)
Literary and cultural constraints	66	(19)
Polysystem Theory and translation	67	(5)
The Manipulationists	72	(1)
Translation purpose	73	(7)
The circle closes: Linkages to other disciplines	80	(5)
Section II: Research models	85	(100)
Register-oriented research models	87	(11)
The age of dichotomies	88	(1)
Skopos and translation strategy	89	(1)
Text reception and translation strategy	90	(2)
Quality assessment and translation strategy	92	(6)
The pragmatics turn in research	98	(12)
Translation strategy and Relevance Theory	99	(2)
Translating the direct way	101	(1)
Communicative clues	102	(6)
The pragmatic view of translation strategy assessed	108	(2)
Focus on the text	110	(16)
Text processing and the process of translation	111	(9)
The genre-text-discourse triad	120	(6)
Translation and ideology	126	(14)
The ideology of translation: A cultural studies perspective	128	(6)
The ideology of translation: A feminist perspective	134	(6)
Translation of genre vs translation as genre	140	(11)
Translation of genre	141	(3)
Translation as genre	144	(7)
Empirical research in translation studies	151	(11)
Corpus research into translation universals	151	(4)
Process research	155	(7)
Theory and practice in translation teaching	162	(23)
Translation into the foreign language	164	(4)
The nature of translation errors	168	(3)
Text typologies as a didactic instrument	171	(14)
Section III: Emphasis on practitioner research	185	(34)
Action and reflection in practitioner research	187	(32)
Textual practices and practitioner research	188	(3)
Researching text, discourse and genre	191	(3)
Text matters	194	(7)
Discourse matters	201	(9)
Genre matters	210	(9)
Section IV: Links and resources	219	(9)
Links and resources	221	(7)
Translators' on-line resources	221	(7)
Glossary	228	(7)
References	235	(10)
Index	245