Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

by Edited by Alessandra Riccardi

• ISBN13: 9780521052634
• ISBN10: 0521052637
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The study of translation is constantly expanding in a world that is experiencing a flourish of translated texts unparalleled in human history. Courses on translation, theory of translation and translation studies are being introduced at university level all over the world. This book provides a panorama of the many ways in which the complex phenomenon of translation is analysed. The contributions to this volume, by a group of leading international scholars, include traditional and new approaches in an interdisciplinary perspective and are representative of the multiplicity of approaches to translation studies, from the literary, to the linguistic, from the cognitive to the cross-cultural, from the descriptive to the applied and to the psychoanalytical. The range of topics covered and the exhaustive bibliography make this book a useful introduction but also provide new and stimulating readings for those already acquainted with the discipline.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Alessandra Riccardi

Paradoxes and aporias in translation and translation studies

The translator in between texts: on the textual presence of the translator as an issue in the methodology of comparative translation description

Aspects of a theory of norms and some issues in teaching translation

Translation as interpretation

Translation and interpretation

Universality versus culture specificity in translation

Translation and linguistics: what does the future hold?

Text linguistics and literary translation

Closer and closer apart? Specialized translation in a cognitive perspective

Knowing translation: cognitive and experiential aspects of translation expertise from the perspective of expertise studies

Towards characterizing translator expertise, knowledge and know-how: some findings using TAPs and experimental methods

An evidence-based approach to applied translation studies

The difference that translation makes: the translator-s unconscious

Index

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