A Study Of The Translator

Author : Klaus Kaindl,Waltraud Kolb,Daniela Schlager
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260277

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Literary Translator Studies by Klaus Kaindl,Waltraud Kolb,Daniela Schlager Pdf

This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four sections: historical-biographical studies, social-scientific and process-oriented methods, and approaches that use paratexts or translations to study literary translators. Drawing on a variety of concepts, such as identity, role, self, posture, habitus, and voice, the various chapters showcase forgotten literary translators and shed new light on some well-known figures; they examine literary translators not as functioning units but as human beings in their uniqueness. Literary Translator Studies as a subdiscipline of Translation Studies demonstrates how exploring the cultural, social, psychological, and cognitive facets of translatorial subjects contributes to a holistic understanding of translation.

Author : Liping Bai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000564419

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Mapping the Translator by Liping Bai Pdf

In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer studies Liang Shiqiu (1903–1987), who was not only a famous writer and important critic but also one of the most prominent translators in China in the 20th century, most notably the first Chinese to finish a translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Based on primary sources, this research covers issues related to the historical, cultural, cognitive and sociological dimensions of translator studies. It investigates Liang’s translation poetics; the influences of possible patrons and professionals on him; the relationship between Liang’s ideology, the dominant ideology and his translation; Liang’s debates with Lu Xun about and beyond translation criteria, and whether there is inconsistency or possible contradiction in Liang’s translation poetics. This book also analyses the similarities and differences between Liang Shiqiu and Wu Mi–two followers of Irving Babbitt–in terms of translation poetics, and further explores the reasons leading to such differences. This book is targeted at scholars and students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in the fields of translation studies, Asian studies, Chinese studies, and literary studies.

Author : Sattar Izwaini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443876872

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Papers in Translation Studies by Sattar Izwaini Pdf

This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering stimulating discussions on translation and providing fresh perspectives on the field. Papers in Translation Studies features a selection of papers originally authored for this volume, addressing a variety of issues from different points of view and offering interesting contributions to the critical literature of the field. The volume provides useful resources that will be of great benefit for academics, students and practitioners. The contributions to this book promote research on translation theory and practice, and suggest ways of dealing with translation problems. The volume chapters are written by researchers from around the world, and consider various different languages and contexts. Areas of investigation include contrastive linguistics and translation, corpus-based translation studies, natural language processing, machine translation, and translator training.

Author : Kaisa Koskinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317640158

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Translating Institutions by Kaisa Koskinen Pdf

Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their foundational multilingualism, the institutions of the European Union could be described as both translating and translated institutions. The European Commission alone employs nearly two thousand translators, and it is translators who draft the vast majority of outgoing EU messages. Translating Institutions sets out to explore the organizational role and professional identity of this group of cultural mediators, a group that has remained relatively invisible despite its size and central institutional role, and to use the analysis of this data to elaborate broader methodological and theoretical issues. Translating Institutions adopts an ethnographic approach to explore the life and work of the translators at the centre of this study. In practice, this entails employing a number of different methods and interrogating various types of data. The three-level research design used covers the study of the institutional framework, the study of translators working in specific institutional settings, and the study of translated documents and their source texts. This is therefore a study of both texts and people in their institutional habitat. Given the methodological focus of the volume, the different methods and data are outlined in independent chapters: the institutional framework of translation (institutional ethnography), the physical location of the unit (observation), translators' own views of their role (focus group discussions), and a sociologically-oriented text analysis of a sample document (shifts analysis). Translating Institutions constitutes a valuable contribution to the sociology of translation. It opens up new avenues for research and offers a detailed framework for the study of institutional translation.

Author : Kirsten Malmkjær,Kevin Windle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199239306

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The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies by Kirsten Malmkjær,Kevin Windle Pdf

This book covers the history of the theory and practice of translation from Cicero to the digital age. It examines all major processes of translation, offers critical accounts of current research, and compares theoretical perspectives on the problems of translation ranging from sacred texts and drama to science and diplomatic interpretation.

Author : Gong Qinyan,Xu Xiumei
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781631815843

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A STUDY OF THE TRANSLATOR by Gong Qinyan,Xu Xiumei Pdf

The translator is one of the key elements in the practice of translation. However, the roles of the translator have long been overlooked and even denied in the history of translation studies, which has led to the invisibility of the translator. The reasons for the invisibility of the translator have been investigated in this book. With the emergence of new thoughts in philosophy, cultural studies, cognitive science and linguistic theories, changes have occurred in the ideas about the roles of the translator and resulted in the visibility of the translator and the prominence of the subjectivity of the translator in translation studies. This book explores the changes from two major perspectives. One perspective is from structuralism and the objective standards applied in natural science and social sciences related to the translator’s invisibility. The other perspective is from hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, the theory of power and discourse, embodied philosophy, relevance theory, and cognitive linguistics, all of which explain the subjectivity of the translator and support the viewpoint that the translator is active, rather than passive, in translation activities, and hence the visibility of the translator in translation studies.

Author : Lawrence Venuti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415613477

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The Translation Studies Reader by Lawrence Venuti Pdf

A definitive survey of the most important developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. This new edition includes pre-twentieth century readings and readings from other fields.

Author : Silvia Kadiu
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781787352513

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Reflexive Translation Studies by Silvia Kadiu Pdf

In the past decades, translation studies have increasingly focused on the ethical dimension of translational activity, with an emphasis on reflexivity to assert the role of the researcher in highlighting issues of visibility, creativity and ethics. In Reflexive Translation Studies, Silvia Kadiu investigates the viability of theories that seek to empower translation by making visible its transformative dimension; for example, by championing the visibility of the translating subject, the translator’s right to creativity, the supremacy of human translation or an autonomous study of translation. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstructive thinking, Kadiu presents practical ways of challenging theories that argue reflexivity is the only way of developing an ethical translation. She questions the capacity of reflexivity to counteract the power relations at play in translation (between minor and dominant languages, for example) and problematises affirmative claims about (self-)knowledge by using translation itself as a process of critical reflection. In exploring the interaction between form and content, Reflexive Translation Studies promotes the need for an experimental, multi-sensory and intuitive practice, which invites students, scholars and practitioners alike to engage with theory productively and creatively through translation.

Author : Carmen Millán,Francesca Bartrina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136242144

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies by Carmen Millán,Francesca Bartrina Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including: the current status of the field and its interdisciplinary nature the problematic definition of the object of study the various theoretical frameworks the research methodologies available. The handbook also includes discussion of the most recent theoretical, descriptive and applied research, as well as glimpses of future directions within the field and an extensive up-to-date bibliography. The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies is an indispensable resource for postgraduate students of translation studies.

Author : Gideon Toury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027221452

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Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond by Gideon Toury Pdf

A replacement of the author's well-known book on Translation Theory, In Search of a Theory of Translation (1980), this book makes a case for Descriptive Translation Studies as a scholarly activity as well as a branch of the discipline, having immediate consequences for issues of both a theoretical and applied nature. Methodological discussions are complemented by an assortment of case studies of various scopes and levels, with emphasis on the need to contextualize whatever one sets out to focus on.Part One deals with the position of descriptive studies within TS and justifies the author's choice to devote a whole book to the subject. Part Two gives a detailed rationale for descriptive studies in translation and serves as a framework for the case studies comprising Part Three. Concrete descriptive issues are here tackled within ever growing contexts of a higher level: texts and modes of translational behaviour — in the appropriate cultural setup; textual components — in texts, and through these texts, in cultural constellations. Part Four asks the question: What is knowledge accumulated through descriptive studies performed within one and the same framework likely to yield in terms of theory and practice?This is an excellent book for higher-level translation courses.

Author : Douglas Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315387857

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Critical Translation Studies by Douglas Robinson Pdf

This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the primal scene of translation: two languages, two language communities, with the translator as mediator. According to Sakai, intralingual translation is primal: we are all foreigners to each other, making every address to another "heterolingual", thus a form of translation; and it is the order that these acts of translation bring to communication that begins to generate the "two separate languages" scenario. CTS is dedicated to the historicization of the social relations that create that scenario. In three sets of "Critical Theses on Translation," the book outlines and explains (and partly critiques) the CTS approach; in five interspersed chapters, the book delves more deeply into CTS, with an eye to making it do work that will be useful to TS scholars.

Author : Edwin Gentzler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317213215

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Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies by Edwin Gentzler Pdf

In Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies, Edwin Gentzler argues that rewritings of literary works have taken translation to a new level: literary texts no longer simply originate, but rather circulate, moving internationally and intersemiotically into new media and forms. Drawing on traditional translations, post-translation rewritings and other forms of creative adaptation, he examines the different translational cultures from which literary works emerge, and the translational elements within them. In this revealing study, four concise chapters give detailed analyses of the following classic works and their rewritings: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Germany Postcolonial Faust Proust for Everyday Readers Hamlet in China. With examples from a variety of genres including music, film, ballet, comics, and video games, this book will be of special interest for all students and scholars of translation studies and contemporary literature.

Author : Jeremy Munday,Sara Ramos Pinto,Jacob Blakesley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000533859

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Introducing Translation Studies by Jeremy Munday,Sara Ramos Pinto,Jacob Blakesley Pdf

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide. This fifth edition has been fully revised, and continues to provide a balanced and detailed guide to the theoretical landscape. Each theory is applied to a wide range of languages, including Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and Spanish. A broad spectrum of texts is analysed, including the Bible, Buddhist sutras, Beowulf, the fiction of Proust and the theatre of Shakespeare, European Union and UNESCO documents, a range of contemporary films, a travel brochure, a children's cookery book and the translations of Harry Potter. Each chapter comprises an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories, illustrative texts with translations, case studies, a chapter summary, and discussion points and exercises. New features in this fifth edition include: New material to keep up with developments in research and practice; this includes the sociology of translation chapter, where a new case study employs a Bourdieusian approach; there is also newly structured discussion on translation in the digital age, and audiovisual and machine translation; Revised discussion points and updated figures and tables; New in-chapter activities with links in the enhanced ebook to online materials and articles to encourage independent research; An extensive updated companion website with video introductions and journal articles to accompany each chapter, online exercises, an interactive timeline, weblinks, and PowerPoint slides for teacher support. This is a practical, user-friendly textbook ideal for students and researchers on courses in translation and translation studies.

Author : Anthony Pym,Miriam Shlesinger,Daniel Simeoni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027291677

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Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies by Anthony Pym,Miriam Shlesinger,Daniel Simeoni Pdf

To go “beyond” the work of a leading intellectual is rarely an unambiguous tribute. However, when Gideon Toury founded Descriptive Translation Studies as a research-based discipline, he laid down precisely that intellectual challenge: not just to describe translation, but to explain it through reference to wider relations. That call offers at once a common base, an open and multidirectional ambition, and many good reasons for unambiguous tribute. The authors brought together in this volume include key players in Translation Studies who have responded to Toury’s challenge in one way or another. Their diverse contributions address issues such as the sociology of translators, contemporary changes in intercultural relations, the fundamental problem of defining translations, the nature of explanation, and case studies including pseudotranslation in Renaissance Italy, Sherlock Holmes in Turkey, and the coffee-and-sugar economy in Brazil. All acknowledge Translation Studies as a research-based space for conceptual coherence and creativity; all seek to explain as well as describe. In this sense, we believe that Toury’s call has been answered beyond expectations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004488106

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Translation Studies: The State of the Art by Anonim Pdf