Schaffner C. Translation Research and Interpreting Research: Traditions, Gaps and Synergies

Ministry of Science and Education of Republic of Kazakhstan Colledge of the Foreign Languages Karaganda 2008 - 32 p. Introduction History of interpreting and establishing of the theory of translation History of translation History of theory Development of the theory of translation in the twentieth century Models and types of interpreting Simultaneous and machine translation Conclusion Bibliography

Abstract: This book is a dialogue between a theoretical scholar and a professional translator, about the usefulness (if any) of translation theory. Andrew Chesterman and Emma Wagner argue about the problem of the translator's identity, the history of the translator's role, the translator's visibility, translation types and strategies, translation quality, ethics, and translation aids. Chapter 1 addresses the aims of theory, the needs of transla...

Routledge; 2006. 201 p. A highly topical book from a hugely respected figure in the field, Mona Baker’s Translation and Conflict is a timely exploration of the importance of the role of translators and interpreters to the political process. Given an increased interest in the positioning of translators in politically sensitive situations, as in the case of Katherine Gunn at GCHQ, and in settings such as Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Kosovo, the book f...

This book addresses the need for a systematic approach to the training of translators and provides an explicit syllabus which reflects some of the main intricacies involved in rendering a text from one language into another. It explores the relevance of some of the key areas of modern linguistic theory and illustrates how an understanding of these key areas can guide and inform at least some of the decisions that translators have to make. It draw...

Language and culture. Types of translation. Decoding and recoding. Problems of equivalence. Loss and gain. Untranslatability. Science or ‘secondary activity’? History of translation theory. Problems of ‘period study’. The Romans. Bible translation. Education and the vernacular. Early theorists. The Renaissance. The seventeenth century. The eighteenth century. Romanticism. Post-Romanticism. The Victorians. Archaizing. The twentieth century. Specif...

A new approach to translation equivalence BY SHIFTS we mean departures from formal correspondence in the process of going from the SL (source language) to the TL (target language). Two major types of shifts occur: level shifts (1.1) and category shifts (1.2). 1.1 Level shifts. By a shift of level we mean that a SL item at one linguistic level has a TL translation equivalent at a different level. We have already pointed out that translation betwee...

Translation and the new cosmopolitanism. Translation and migration. Intepreting identity. The future of diversity.

Ntroduction. The Discipline or Interdiscipline of Translation Studies. Translation Theory Before the Twentieth Century. Equivalence and Equivalent Effect. Studying the Translation Process: Translation Shifts, Contrastive Linguistics, and Cognitive Theories. Functional Theories of Translation. Discourse and Register Analysis Approaches. Systems Theories. Translation as Rewriting. Translation and Globalization. Translating the Foreign: The (in)Visi...

Robinson D. Becoming a Translator. An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation. - Routledge: London and New York, 2003. - 301 p. Offering suggestions for discussion, activities, and hints for the teaching of translation, the second edition of Becoming a Translator remains invaluable for students on and teachers of courses in translation, as well as for professional translators and scholars of translation and language. Книга для изуч...

London and New York, Routledge, 2000, 524 p. Walter Benjamin. The task of the translator Ezra Pound. Guido's relations Jorge Luis Borges. The translators of the thousand and one nights Jos? Ortega y Gasset.The misery and the splendor of translation Vladimir Nabokov. Problems of translation: Onegin in English Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet. A methodology for translation Willard V.O.Quine. Meaning and translation Roman Jakobson. On linguistic a...