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Author Bell, Roger T.

Title Translation and translating : theory and practice / Roger T. Bell ; [general editor, C.N. Candlin]
Published London ; New York : Longman, 1991
[(1995?])

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 MELB  418.02 BEL-T  AVAILABLE
Description xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Applied linguistics and language study
Applied linguistics and language study.
Contents PART 1. MODEL. 1. Perspectives on translation --- 2. Translating;modelling the process ---- PART 2. MEANING. 3. Word- and sentence-meaning --- 4. Logic, grammar and rhetoric --- 5. Text and discourse ---- PART 3. MEMORY. 6. Text processing --- 7. Information, knowledge and memory --- 8. Envoi
Summary Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of intellectual activity in human sciences and fail to take its rightful place as a major field in applied Linguistics
Analysis Translation
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-285) and index
Subject Translating and interpreting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Translating and interpreting -- Study and teaching.
Translating and interpreting.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Author Candlin, Christopher.
LC no. 90020545
ISBN 0582016487 (paperback)