Unity in Diversity

Höfundur: Lynne Bowker (Útgáfa: 1)
Unity in Diversity

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Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy, software localization and lexicography. There is evidently great diversity in translation studies, but is there much unity? Have the different branches of translation studies become so specialized that they can no longer talk to each other? Would translation studies be strengthened or weakened by the search for or the existence of unifying principles? This volume brings together contributions from feminist theory, screen translation, terminology, interpreting, computer-assisted translation, advertising, literature, linguistics, and translation pedagogy in order to counter the tendency to partition or exclude in translation studies.

Machine translation specialists and literary translators should be found between the same book covers, if only because the nomadic journeying of concepts is often the key to intellectual discovery and renewal. Celebrating our differences does not mean ignoring what we have in common. Unity in Diversity offers a valuable overview of the current state of translation studies from both theoretical and practical perspectives and makes an important contribution to debates on the future direction of translation studies.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781134960422
Print ISBN
9781900650151
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Lynne Bowker
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2016-04-08
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section One: The Nature of Translation
  • Dis-Unity and Diversity Feminist Approaches to Translation Studies
  • Introduction1
  • Disunity in feminist work: undermining consensus
  • Mainstream 'translatese' of third world material
  • Elitist translation
  • Hypocritical translation
  • Factors motivating 'responsible and desirable' disunity
  • References
  • Translation, Autobiography, Bilingualism
  • References
  • Section Two: Translation in National Context
  • Antigone A Scots/Welsh Experience of Mythical and Theatrical Translation
  • The central dialectic of Antigone and the Scottish experience
  • Dialectic and language choice in theatrical performance
  • Scots and Welsh in translation
  • The dramatic flexibility of modern Scots
  • Welsh and its mythic and dramatic scope
  • Tentative interim conclusions
  • Future stages in the project
  • References
  • 'Genuine' and 'Fictitious' Translations of Science Fiction ampentity Fantasy in Hungary
  • References
  • Theory and Practice Translation in India
  • Introduction1
  • The mother tongue
  • The original text
  • Translation in Orissa: a survey
  • Translation in India: the National Book Trust
  • Local contexts: Bengal and Orissa
  • Translation theory in context
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Marginal Forms of Translation in Japan Variations from the Norm
  • Introduction
  • Kambun kundoku — Making Chinese texts accessible to Japanese readers
  • Adaptations of foreign works
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Choices and Constraints in Screen Translation
  • References
  • Section Three: Descriptive Translation Studies
  • Six Subtitlers — Six Subtitling Texts
  • Introduction
  • The experiment
  • Number and organization of subtitles
  • Text reduction in terms of linguistic functions
  • Language registers
  • Dramatic and conversational structure
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Parallel Texts in Translation
  • Introduction
  • Conventionalized text types
  • Quasi parallel texts and new text types
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Bilingual Reference Corpora for Translators and Translation Studies
  • Introduction
  • The parallel corpus procedures
  • The comparable corpus procedures
  • Final remarks
  • References
  • The English Comparable Corpus A Resource and a Methodology
  • The English Comparable Corpus (ECC)
  • The composition of the newspapers subcorpus
  • The Guardian collections
  • The European collections
  • The source languages
  • Simplification: a hypothesized universal feature of translated texts
  • Statement of hypotheses
  • Hypotheses of simplification:
  • Software for the automatic analysis of the ECC newspapers subcorpus
  • Results concerning the hypotheses relating to The Guardian
  • Additional results relating to The Guardian
  • Variance
  • Results concerning the hypotheses relating to The European
  • TEC Presswatch vs Non-Tec Presswatch
  • TEC Presswatch vs Non-Tec Sevenday
  • Influence of the SL on simplification
  • Additional results relating to The European
  • Variance
  • Non-Tec Presswatch vs Non-Tec Sevenday
  • Additional results relating to The Guardian vs The European
  • The Guardian Non-Tec vs The European Non-Tec Sevenday
  • The Guardian TEC vs The European TEC
  • The Guardian TEC with The European Non-Tec Presswatch
  • Discussion
  • The Guardian collections
  • The European collections
  • TEC Presswatch vs Non-Tec Presswatch and Non-Tec Sevenday
  • Non-Tec Presswatch vs Non-Tec Sevenday
  • Variance
  • The Guardian vs The European collections
  • Conclusions and suggestions for further research
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Section Four: Computer-Aided Translation
  • Practical Experience of Computer-Aided Translation Tools in the Software Localization Industry
  • Introduction to translation in the localization industry
  • CAT tools in localization
  • What is a translation memory?
  • Terminology capabilities in CAT tools
  • Alignment
  • What are the advantages associated with CAT tools?
  • For the client
  • For the localization company
  • For the translator
  • What are the challenges posed by CAT tools?
  • Challenges for the Client
  • Challenges for the localization company
  • Challenges for the translator
  • CAT technology in the future
  • Translation Memories: Insights and Prospects
  • Introduction
  • The benefits of using CAT tools
  • Profile of CAT tool users
  • Technical issues in translation memories
  • Coping with similarity
  • Interactive access
  • Translation memory size
  • Additional processes
  • Data exchange with the front end
  • Batch Processing
  • Pretranslation
  • Repetition analysis
  • Analysis of frequent occurrences of translation units
  • Post-translation processes
  • Updating and revisions
  • Source-preserving systems
  • Search-engine and data storage
  • Networking
  • Additional information stored in translation memory systems
  • Front-end integration
  • Internal integration
  • External integration
  • Indirect integration
  • Depth of integration
  • Front-end independence
  • A special front-end: concordance access
  • Emerging Issues
  • Authoring
  • The way translators see themselves
  • Peep-hole translations
  • Translation rates
  • Copyright issues
  • Bilingual corpus collection
  • The future
  • Consistency and Variation in Technical Translations A Study of Translators' Attitudes
  • Introduction
  • Objectives and methodology
  • Results and implications
  • Translation companies' attitudes
  • The customer's attitudes
  • Consistency vs. variation
  • Uniformity when deciding on a preferred translation alternative
  • Summary
  • References
  • The Problem with Machine Translation
  • Translation as an essentially human activity
  • Translation without translators
  • Building bridges: Machine Translation with translators
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Machine Translation as a Model of Human Translation
  • Introduction
  • Kinds of modelling
  • Modelling input-output relations
  • Modelling the translator's knowledge
  • Modelling the translation process
  • Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Section Five: Interpreting Studies
  • Unity in Diversity The Case of Interpreting Studies
  • Introduction
  • (Conference) interpreting studies
  • The solid soil of science
  • There's more to interpreting ...
  • Interpreting research commUNITY in diversity?
  • References
  • Language Direction and Source Text Complexity Effects on Trainee Performance in Simultaneous Interpreting
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • Subjects
  • Design
  • Materials
  • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • User Responses to Simultaneous Interpreting
  • Introduction
  • Aims, hypothesis and method
  • Discussion
  • Interpreters' target groups
  • Quality criteria
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • List of Contributors