Louise Haywood, Michael Thompson, Sándor Hervey

Thinking Spanish Translation (eBook, ePUB)

A Course in Translation Method: Spanish to English

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approach to the acquisition of translation skills, with clear explanations of the theoretical issues involved.A variety of translation issues are addressed, including:cultural differencesregister and dialectgrammatical differencesgenre.With a sharper focus, clearer definitions and an increased emphasis on up-to-date 'real world' translation tasks, this second edition features a wealth of relevant illustrative material taken from a wide range of sources, both Latin American and Spanish, including: technical, scientific and legal textsjournalistic and informative texts literary and dramatic texts. Each chapter includes suggestions for classroom discussion and a set of practical exercises designed to explore issues and consolidate skills. Model translations, notes and suggestions for teaching and assessment are provided in a Teachers' Handbook; this is available for free download at http://www.routledge.com/cw/thinkingtranslation/Thinking Spanish Translation is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish and translation studies. The book will also appeal to a wide range of language students and tutors through the general discussion of the principles and purposes of translation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134070176
• Artikelnr.: 38245274

Autorenporträt

Louise M. Haywood is Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Michael Thompson is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham.The late Sándor Hervey was Reader in Linguistics at the University of St Andrews.

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.