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This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory.
Munday explores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the different approaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are taken from a broad range of languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and Spanish - and English translations are provided. A wide variety of text types is analysed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical text and a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the following features:
* a table introducing key concepts * an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories * illustrative texts with translations * a chapter summary * discussion points and exercises.
Including a general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites for further information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook that gives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.
| Introduction | |
| Main issues of translation studies | |
| Translation theory before the twentieth century | |
| Equivalence and equivalent effect | |
| The translation shift approach | |
| Functional theories of translation | |
| Discourse and register analysis approaches | |
| Systems theories | |
| Varieties of cultural studies | |
| Translating the foreign: the (in)visibility of translation | |
| Philosophical theories of translation | |
| Translation studies as an interdiscipline | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780415229265
ISBN-10: 041522926X
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 29th May 2001
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.48
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