Louise M. Haywood, Michael Thompson, Sandor Hervey

Thinking Spanish Translation

A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking Spanish Translation focuses on improving translation quality by showing in detail the roles of clarity, method and awareness of purpose in translation, not as substitutes for creativity and flair, but as essential underpinnings. This second edition includes more contemporary and non-literary material and the range of text-types and language varieties has been increased. Overall, the authors aim to achieve a balance of canonical materials with contemporary ones, literary text-types with non-literary ones, and peninsular Spanish sources with Latin American ones. A new vocational chapter has been included and the whole course has been thoroughly revised to give clearer explanantions of key concepts. A variety of translation issues are addressed, among them cultural differences and genre. This is a comprehensive practical course in translation for advanced undergraduate and first year postgraduate students. A Tutors handbook, giving guidance on teaching methods and assessment, as well as specimen answers, will be available in PDF format from our website.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415481304
• ISBN-10: 0415481309
• Artikelnr.: 25664143

Autorenporträt

Michael Thompson ist Professor für Philosophie an der Universität Pittsburgh. Er war unter anderem Rockefeller Fellow am University Center for Human Values in Princeton und Burkhardt Fellow am Institute for Advanced Study ebendort.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction 2. Preliminaries to
Translation as a Product 3. Lexis and Compensation 4. Genre: Text Type and
Purpose 5. Cultural Issues in Translation 6. The Formal Properties of
Texts: Phonic, Graphic and Prosodic Issues 7. The Formal Properties of
Texts: Syntactical, Morphological and Discourse Issues 8. Literal
(denotative) Meaning and Translation Issues 9. Connotative Meaning and
Translation Problems 10. Language Variety: Social and Tonal Register 11.
Language Variety: Dialect, Sociolect and Code-switching 12. Scientific and
Technical Translation 13. Legal and Financial Translation 14. Translation
of Consumer-oriented Texts 15. Stylistic Editing 16. Summary and
Conclusion. Glossary. References. Index.