Why translation studies matters
By: edited by Daniel Gile, Gyde Hansen, Nike K. Pokorn
Series: Benjamins translation library -- v. 88; Benjamins translation library. EST subseries -- v. 6; Benjamins translation library -- v. 88.; Benjamins translation library -- v. 6.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9789027224347
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Articles in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part I. Does TS matter?: Why interpreting studies matters / Franz Pöchhacker; title: What matters to translation studies? On the role of public translation studies / Kaisa Koskinen; title: Part II. Translation and society: Translators as cultural mediators: wish or reality?: a question for translation studies / David Limon; title: Censorship in the translations and pseudo-translations of the West / Carmen Camus Camus; title: A world without God: Slovene Bambi / Nike K. Pokorn; title: Manipulating the matricial norms: a comparison of the English, Swedish and French translations of La caverna de las ideas by José Carlos Somoza / Yvonne Lindqvist; title: Knowledge in translation studies and translation practice: intellectual capital in modern society / Hanna Risku, Angela Dickinson and Richard Pircher; title: Part III. Language issues: Is translation studies going Anglo-Saxon? Critical comments on the globalization of a discipline / Mary Snell-Hornby; title: Slowakisch: Brückensprache zur slawischen Welt?: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer kleinen EU-Sprache / Martina Vankúšová; title: Translation Studies and mass media research / Rachel Weissbrod; title: Register shifts in translations of popular fiction from English into Slovene / Marija Zlatnar Moe; title: Getting the ACCENT right in translation studies / Ian A. Williams; title: Die Kirche im Dorf oder die Regierung im Wald lassen: Zum Übersetzungsproblem der Namen von Ämtern und Ähnlichem für Nachrichtenzwecke im Medium Radio / Dieter Hermann Schmitz; title: Part IV. Assessment and training: Magnifying glasses modifying maps: a role for translation theory in introductory courses / Heloísa Pezza Cintrão; title: Effects of short intensive practice on interpreter trainees' performance / Magdalena Bart±omiejczyk; title: Corpora in translator training: a program for an eLearning course / Kerstin Kunz, Sara Castagnoli, Natalie Kübler; title: Part V. Psychology: Psycholinguistik, Übersetzungswissenschaft und Expertiseforschung im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Forschung / Caroline Lehr; title: Interpreting Studies and psycholinguistics: a possible synergy effect / Agnieszka Chmiel; title: fMRI for exploring simultaneous interpreting / Barbara Ahrens ... [et al.]; title: Part VI. Postscript: Why Translation studies matters: a pragmatist's viewpoint / Daniel Gile; title: Index.