The metalanguage of translation / edited by Yves Gambier, Luc van Doorslaer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gambier, Yves, 1949-

Doorslaer, Luc van, 1964-

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 20.

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vi, 192 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Let the meta-discussion begin," James Holmes urged in 1972. Coming almost forty years later - years filled with fascinating and often unexpected developments in the interdiscipline of Translation Studies - this volume offers the reader a multiplicity of meta-perspectives, while also moving the discussion forward. Indeed, the (re)production and (re)use of metalinguistic metaphors frame and partly determine our views on research, so such a discussion is vital ­as it is in any scholarly discipline. Among other questions, the eleven contributors draw the reader's attention to the often puzzling variations of usage and conceptualization in both the theory and the practice of translation. First published as a special issue of Target 19:2 (2007), the volume runs the gamut of metalinguistic topics, ranging from terminology, localization and epistemological questions, through the Chinese perspective, to the conceptual mapping of the online Translation Studies Bibliography.

Contents:

How about meta?: an introduction / Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer

Defining patterns in Translation Studies: revisiting two classics of German Translationswissenschaft / Gernot Hebenstreit

Risking conceptual maps: mapping as a keywords-related tool underlying the online Translation Studies Bibliography / Luc van Doorslaer

Polysemy and synonymy: their management in Translation Studies dictionaries and in translator training: a case study / Leona Van Vaerenbergh

The terminology of translation: epistemological, conceptual and intercultural problems and their social consequences / Josep Marco

Natural and directional equivalence in theories of translation / Anthony Pym

A literary work, Translation and original: a conceptual analysis within the philosophy of art and Translation Studies / Leena Laiho

'What's in a name?': On metalinguistic confusion in Translation Studies / Mary Snell-Hornby

In defence of fuzziness / Nike K. Pokorn

The metalanguage of localization: theory and practice / Iwona Mazur

The metalanguage of translation: a Chinese perspective / Jun Tang

Translation terminology and its offshoots / Yves Gambier

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-31228-6

9786612312281

90-272-8886-0

OCLC:

558679264