This book is for students of translation, languages and linguistics
who would like to enhance their understanding of the relationships
between these areas of study. The book uses explanation, discussion
and practice to make explicit the forms of knowledge of language
and of translation that makes translators successful. Chapters on
the development of translation studies in the west and on
contemporary approaches to translation provide the disciplinary
context within which the processes and products of translating are
studied. The theoretical and academic context for the chapters in
which application is focal is provided by the book's flexible and
forward-looking approach to meaning and translation. Meaning is
seen as a temporary relationship between participants in language
events and translation as a creative activity that contributes to
such events. From this position, interaction between language
study, linguistics and translation studies is seen as mutually
enriching. Five practical chapters cover sounds and rhythms, lexis,
collocation and semantic prosody, texture, register, cohesion,
coherence, implicature, speech and text acts, text and genre
analysis, clausal thematicity and transitivity and the expression
through language choices of ideological positions. Features: * Each
chapter provides examples for analysis and translating practice
based on a variety of text types, including poems, prose, drama,
newspaper and journal articles, promotional materials and texts for
tourists. * Examples are drawn mainly from Danish, English, French,
German, Italian and Spanish, but most practice sections can be used
for analysis and translation into any language from English * The
book can be used at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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