The Translator As Communicator

by Hatim,Basil

• ISBN13: 9780415117364
• ISBN10: 0415117364
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Translator as Communicatorargues that the division of the subject into literary and non-literary, technical and non-technical and so on, is unhelpful and misleading. Instead of dwelling on these differentials, the authors focus on what common ground exists between these distinctions. The proposed model is presented through a series of case studies, ranging from legal texts to poems, each of which focuses on one particular feature of text constitution, while not losing sight of how this contributes to the whole analytic apparatus. Topics covered include: a comprehensive description of the interpreting process; power and ideology in translation; discourse errors; and curriculum design for translator training. This approach will be of immense interest both to aspiring students of translation and to professionals already working in the field.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
Preface	vii
Sources of samples	x
Unity in diversity	1	(13)
Foundations for a model of analysing texts	14	(22)
Interpreting: a text linguistic approach	36	(25)
Texture in simultaneous interpreting	61	(17)
Politeness in screen translating	78	(19)
Register membership in literary translating	97	(14)
Form and function in the translation of the sacred and sensitive text	111	(16)
Cross-cultural communication	127	(16)
Ideology	143	(21)
Text-level errors	164	(15)
Curriculum design	179	(18)
Assessing performance	197	(16)
Glossary	213	(14)
Notes	227	(7)
References	234	(5)
Index	239