Full Description
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.
Contents
A visual tour of Introducing Translation Studies
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Main issues of translation studies
2 The basic concepts of early translation theory
3 Equivalence and equivalent effect
4 Studying translation product and process
5 Functional theories of translation
6 Discourse and Register analysis approaches
7 Systems theories
8 Cultural and ideological turns
9 The role of the translator: visibility, ethics and sociology
10 Philosophical approaches to translation
11 New directions from audiovisual translation and digital technology
12 Research and commentary projects
Bibliography
Index
