Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach [electronic resource] /
House, J.editor.
The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Translation and Equivalence; 3 Discourse and Translation - A Social Perspective; 4 Chinese Discourse on Translation as Intercultural Communication: The Story of jihe; 5 Cross Cultural Pragmatics and Translation: The Case of Museum Texts as Interlingual Representation; 6 Translations as a Locus of Language Contact; 7 Reorienting Translation Studies: Cognitive Approaches and the Centrality of the Translator; 8 Literary Translation; 9 Translation as Re-narration; 10 Corpora in Translation
11 Translation and New(s) Media: Participatory Subtitling Practices in Networked Mediascapes12 The Role of Translation in Language Learning and Teaching; 13 Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.
Applied linguistics.
Translation and interpretation.
Historical linguistics.
Literature-Translations.
Applied Linguistics.
Translation.
Historical Linguistics.
Translation Studies.