LINGUIST List 13.2394

Fri Sep 20 2002

Books: Translation: Riccardi

Editor for this issue: Tomoko Okuno <tomokolinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Joyce Reid, Translation: Alessandra Riccardi

Cambridge University Press
 http://www.cup.org/language


Translation Studies
Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

Editor

Alessandra Riccardi, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste,
Italy

There is currently a global increase in the number of translated texts
available. New courses on translation, theory of translation and
translation studies are being introduced at the university level
worldwide. This book provides a panorama of the many ways in which the
complex phenomenon of translation is analyzed. Contributions by a
group of leading international scholars include traditional and new
approaches in an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contributors:

Alessandra Riccardi, Cees Koster, Rita D. Snel Trampus, Axel B�hler,
Julianne House, Kirsten Malmkjaer, Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Federica
Scarpa, Gregory M. Shreve, Robert J. Jarvella, Astrid Jensen,
Elisabeth Halskov Jensen, Mette Skovgaard Andersen, Margherita Ulrych,
Lawrence Venuti

Introduction Alessandra Riccardi 
1. Paradoxes and aporias in translation and translation studies 
Theo Hermans
2. The translator in between texts--On the textual presence of the
translator as an issue in the methodology of comparative translation
description Cees Koster
3. Aspects of a theory of norms and some issues in teaching
translation Rita D. Snel Trampus
4. Translation as interpretation Axel B�hler 
5. Translation and interpretation Alessandra Riccardi
6. Universality versus culture specificity in translation Julianne House 
7. Translation and linguistics: what does the future hold? 
Kirsten Malmkjaer
8. Text linguistics and literary translation Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi
9. Closer and closer apart? Specialized translation in a cognitive
perspective Federica Scarpa
10. Knowing translation: cognitive and experiential aspects of
translation expertise from the perspective of expertise studies
Gregory M. Shreve
11. Towards characterizing translator expertise, knowledge and
know-how: some findings using TAPs and experimental methods 
Robert J. Jarvella, Astrid Jensen, Elisabeth Halskov Jensen, Mette 
Skovgaard Andersen
12. An evidence-based approach to applied translation studies
Margherita Ulrych
13. The difference that translation makes: the translator's
unconscious Lawrence Venuti.

2002/c. 300 pp.
052181731-5/Hb/List: $60.00