A companion to translation studies

 Content: Notes on Contributors ix  Acknowledgments xvi  Introduction 1   I Approaches to Translation 13    Histories and Theories 14   1 The Changing Landscape of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15  Mona Baker   2 Philosophical/Theoretical Approaches to Translation 28  Efrain Kristal   3 Philosophy in Translation 41  Robert J. C. Young   4 Variations on Translation 54  Susan Bassnett    Methodologies 67   5 Text Analysis and Translation 69  Jeremy Munday   6 The Sociology of Translation: A New Research Domain 82  Gisele Sapiro   7 Style in, and of, Translation 95  Gabriela Saldanha   8 Translation as Higher-Order Text Processing 107  Gregory M. Shreve and Isabel Lacruz   9 Multimodality in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 119  Luis Perez Gonzalez    Technologies   133   10 Machine Translation: A Tale of Two Cultures 135  Brian Lennon   11 Localization and the (R)evolution of Translation 147  Keiran J. Dunne   II Translation in a Global Context 163   Intercultural Perspectives on Translation 164   12 Cultural Hegemony and the Erosion of Translation Communities 165  Maria Tymoczko   13 Translation as Intercultural Communication: Views from the Chinese Discourse on Translation 179  Martha P. Y. Cheung   14 Arabic and Translation: Key Moments in Trans-Cultural Connection 191  Roger Allen   15 Worlds Without Translation: Premodern East Asia and the Power of Character Scripts 204  Wiebke Denecke   16 Global and Local Languages 217  Gillian Lane-Mercier    Translation and the Postcolonial 231   17 What Is Special about Postcolonial Translation? 233  Ben Conisbee Baer   18 Postcolonial Issues in Translation: The African Context 246  Kathryn Batchelor   19 Postcolonial Issues: Translating Testimony, Arbitrating Justice 259  Christi A. Merrill    Identities in Translation   271   20 Translocation: Translation, Migration, and the Relocation of Cultures 273  Paul F. Bandia   21 Performing Translation 285  Sandra Bermann   22 Queering Translation 298  William J. Spurlin   23 How Adolfo Caminha's   Bom-Crioulo   Was ''Outed'' through its Translated Paratext 310  Cristiano A. Mazzei   24 Self-Translation 323  Rainier Grutman and Trish Van Bolderen   25 Translated Literature and the Role of the Reader 333  Brian James Baer    Translation and Comparative World Literature   347   26 Translation and National Literature 349  David Damrosch   27 Poetic Innovation and Appropriative Translation in the Americas 361  Rachel J. Galvin   28   Majnun Layla  : Translation as Transposition 375  Ferial J. Ghazoul   29 Benjamin's Proust: Commentary and Translation 388  Michael Wood   30 A Crisis of Translation: Early European Encounters with Japan 401  Valerie Henitiuk   31 Revisiting Re-translation: Re-creation and Historical Re-vision 413  Elizabeth Lowe   32 Reading Literature in Translation 425  Peter Connor    III Genres of Translation 439    Varieties of Translation Practice 440   33 The Expository Translator 441  Catherine Porter   34 Varieties of English for the Literary Translator 454  Michael Henry Heim   35 Tragedy and Translation 467  Phillip John Usher   36 The Go-Betweens: Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, and the Figure of the Poet-Translator 479  Adriana X. Jacobs   37 Translation and Film: Dubbing, Subtitling, Adaptation, and Remaking 492  Wai-Ping Yau   38 Visual Paratexts in Literary Translation: Intersemiotic Issues in the Translation of Classical Chinese Literature 504  Robert Neather   39 Pseudotranslation on the Margin of Fact and Fiction 516  Pehnaz Tahir Gurcad  lar    Translating the Sacred   529   40 Translation and the Sacred: Translating Scripture 531  Tom Hare   41 Story, Sentence, Single Word: Translation Paradigms in Javanese and Malay Islamic Literature 543  Ronit Ricci   42 Translating the Sacred: Colonial Constructions and Postcolonial Perspectives 557  Hephzibah Israel    Intralingual Translation and Questions of History   571   43 Intralingual Translation: Discussions within Translation Studies and the Case of Turkey 573  Ozlem Berk Albachten   44 Intralingual Translation and the Making of a Language 586  Kathleen Davis   45 Translating Japanese into Japanese: Bibliographic Translation from Woodblock to Moveable Type 599  Michael Emmerich   Index 612
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              Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field  Features new work from well-known scholars  Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives  Provides an introduction to translation studies with multi-disciplinary relevance that will be of use to undergraduates and graduates with diverse career goals.                 Read more...