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1 online resource (vii, 158 pages) : illustrations |
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Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures -- Front Cover ; Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Central concepts; Chapter 1: The nature of translation as part of Applied Linguistics; Translation as part of Applied Linguistics; Translation as an essential part of today's revolution in communication; Translation as cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication; Translation as a cognitive process |
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Definition of translation and models of translationChapter 2: Overview of different approaches to translation; Early linguistic, textual and communicative approaches; The (neo)hermeneutic approach; Descriptive translation studies; Postmodernist, postcolonial, feminist and deconstructionist views; Functionalistic, and action- and reception-theory related approaches; Discourse, pragmatic and functional approaches; Chapter 3: Some new trends in translation studies; Ideology in translation studies; Ethics in translation studies; Political action in translation studies |
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Narrative approaches to translationThe role of translation in multicultural societies; Micro-historical studies of translation; Eco-translatology; Chapter 4: Culture and translation; What is culture and what does culture do?; Old thinking about culture: national characters, mentalities, stereotypes; New thinking about culture: small cultures, communities of practice, superdiversity; Translation as intercultural communication; Part II: Translatability, universals, text, context and translation evaluation; Chapter 5: From untranslatability to translatability |
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'Linguistic relativity' and translation: a historical overviewRecent empirical research on linguistic relativity and its impact on translation; Relativizing assumptions on non-translatability; Culture, context and translatability; Chapter 6: Universals of translation?; Language universals and universals of translation; Translation universals; Chapter 7: Text and context: A functional-pragmatic view; Context in different disciplines; Text and context in translation: translation as recontextualization and repositioning |
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Translation as recontextualization under the influence of English as a global lingua francaChapter 8: Translation quality assessment: Review of approaches and practices; Different approaches to translation quality assessment; A linguistic model of translation quality assessment; Distinguishing between different types of translations and versions; Most recent revision of the House model (House 2014); Some recent developments in testing translation quality; Part III: Some new research avenues in translation studies; Chapter 9: Translation and bilingual cognition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-152) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Translating and interpreting.
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Intercultural communication.
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Language and culture.
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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Intercultural communication
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Language and culture
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Sociolinguistics
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Translating and interpreting
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Översättning.
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Interkulturell kommunikation.
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Språk och samhälle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317362667 |
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9781317362661 |
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9781315668956 |
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1315668955 |
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9781317362654 |
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1317362659 |
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