Thinking Translation
by Hervey, Sandor; Higgins, IanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-04-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Thinking Translation is a comprehensive and revolutionary 20-week course in translation method. It has been fully and successfully piloted at the University of St. Andrews.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Preliminaries to Translation as a Process | p. 13 |
| Preliminaries to Translation as a Product | p. 20 |
| Cultural Issues in Translation; Compromise and Compensation | p. 28 |
| The Formal Properties of Texts: Intertextual, Inter-Sentential and Sentential Issues in Translating | p. 45 |
| The Formal Properties of Texts: Grammatical and Lexical Issues in Translation | p. 58 |
| The Formal Properties of Texts: Prosodic and Phonic/Graphic Problems in Translation | p. 68 |
| Literal Meaning and Translation Problems | p. 87 |
| Connotative Meaning and Translation Problems | p. 102 |
| Language Variety in Texts: Dialect, Sociolect, Code-Switching | p. 115 |
| Language Variety in Texts: Social Register and Tonal Register | p. 123 |
| Textual Genre as a Factor in Translation: Oral and Written Genres | p. 135 |
| Genre Marking and the Crossover between Oral and Written Genres | p. 153 |
| Technical Translation | p. 165 |
| Translation of Consumer-Oriented Texts | p. 173 |
| Stylistic Editing | p. 189 |
| Contrastive Topics and Practicals: Introduction | p. 200 |
| Contrastive Topic and Practical: Nominalization | p. 203 |
| Contrastive Topic and Practical: Adverbs | p. 216 |
| Contrastive Topic and Practical 'Absolute' Constructions | p. 227 |
| Contrastive Topic and Practical: Prepositions | p. 236 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 242 |
| Glossary | p. 247 |
| References | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 258 |
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