Why Translation Studies matters / edited by Daniel Gile, Gyde Hansen, Nike K. Pokorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gile, Daniel.

Hansen, Gyde.

Pokorn, Nike K. (Nike Kocijančič)

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 88.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Study and teaching.

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation Studies is challenged by Translation practitioners because of its alleged irrelevance and ineffectiveness. While it is difficult to quantify its 'scientific' contribution, it offers a non-negligible amount of research into relevant topics and has definitely influenced Translator training. Moreover, as an academic activity, it offers a social contribution to the Translators' community by helping it raise its status and by facilitating the exchange of experience and information, all of this at a low cost for society.

Contents:

Preface

Part I. Does TS matter?: Why interpreting studies matters / Franz Pöchhacker

What matters to translation studies? On the role of public translation studies / Kaisa Koskinen

Part II. Translation and society: Translators as cultural mediators: wish or reality?: a question for translation studies / David Limon

Censorship in the translations and pseudo-translations of the West / Carmen Camus Camus

A world without God: Slovene Bambi / Nike K. Pokorn

Manipulating the matricial norms: a comparison of the English, Swedish and French translations of La caverna de las ideas by José Carlos Somoza / Yvonne Lindqvist

Knowledge in translation studies and translation practice: intellectual capital in modern society / Hanna Risku, Angela Dickinson and Richard Pircher

Part III. Language issues: Is translation studies going Anglo-Saxon? Critical comments on the globalization of a discipline / Mary Snell-Hornby

Slowakisch: Brückensprache zur slawischen Welt?: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer kleinen EU-Sprache / Martina Vankúšová

Translation Studies and mass media research / Rachel Weissbrod

Register shifts in translations of popular fiction from English into Slovene / Marija Zlatnar Moe

Getting the ACCENT right in translation studies / Ian A. Williams

Die Kirche im Dorf oder die Regierung im Wald lassen: Zum Übersetzungsproblem der Namen von Ämtern und Ähnlichem für Nachrichtenzwecke im Medium Radio / Dieter Hermann Schmitz

Part IV. Assessment and training: Magnifying glasses modifying maps: a role for translation theory in introductory courses / Heloísa Pezza Cintrão

Effects of short intensive practice on interpreter trainees' performance / Magdalena Bart±omiejczyk

Corpora in translator training: a program for an eLearning course / Kerstin Kunz, Sara Castagnoli, Natalie Kübler

Part V. Psychology: Psycholinguistik, Übersetzungswissenschaft und Expertiseforschung im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Forschung / Caroline Lehr

Interpreting Studies and psycholinguistics: a possible synergy effect / Agnieszka Chmiel

fMRI for exploring simultaneous interpreting / Barbara Ahrens ... [et al.]

Part VI. Postscript: Why Translation studies matters: a pragmatist's viewpoint / Daniel Gile

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558771

9781282558779

1282558773

9789027288646

902728864X

OCLC:

615631995