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Becoming a translator : an introduction to the theory and practice of translation / Douglas Robinson ; with additional technology-related contributions by Mark Shuttleworth and online translator-community-related contributions by Chuan Yu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Douglas, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages.)
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 External knowledge: the user's view p. 5
- Internal and external knowledge p. 6
- Textual reliability p. 7
- The translator's reliability p. 11
- Timeliness p. 14
- Cost p. 16
- 2 Internal knowledge: the translator's view p. 27
- Who are translators? p. 28
- Professional pride p. 31
- Involvement in the profession p. 32
- Income p. 36
- Speed p. 36
- Working with a reviser p. 40
- Specialization p. 41
- Project management p. 43
- Raising the status of the profession p. 43
- Enjoyment p. 44
- 3 The process of translation p. 51
- The shuttle: experience and habit p. 52
- Charles Sanders Peirce on instinct, experience, and habit p. 54
- Abduction, induction, deduction p. 55
- Karl Weick on enactment, selection, and retention p. 57
- The process of translation p. 59
- 4 Drawing on experience: how being a translator is more than just being good at languages p. 67
- What experience? p. 69
- Intuitive leaps p. 72
- Pattern-building p. 81
- Rules and theories p. 85
- 5 Starting with people: social interaction as the first key focus of translators' experience of the world p. 93
- "The meaning of a word is its use in the language" p. 94
- Experiencing people p. 98
- First impressions (intuitive leaps) p. 100
- Deeper acquaintance (pattern-building) p. 103
- Psychology and cognitive science (rules and theories) p. 107
- 6 Working with people: the workplace as the interactive setting for specialized terminologies p. 113
- A new look at terminology p. 114
- Faking it (intuitive leaps) p. 115
- Escalated faking it (using Google Translate) p. 119
- Working (pattern-building) p. 126
- Escalated pattern-building (using translation memory software) p. 129
- Terminology studies (rules and theories) p. 139
- 7 Translation as an operation performed in and on languages p. 145
- Translation and linguistics p. 146
- What could that be? (intuitive leaps) p. 147
- Doing things with words (pattern-building) p. 150
- The translator and speech-act theory (rules and theories) p. 153
- 8 Translation as an operation performed in and on multimedia p. 161
- Translation as information (re)design p. 163
- Letting the nuances emerge (intuitive leaps) p. 166
- Doing things with sounds and images (pattern-building) p. 172
- Audiovisual translation (AVT), media accessibility (MA), and accessibility studies (AS) (rules and theories) p. 176
- 9 Working and understanding through social networks p. 187
- The translator as a social being p. 188
- Pretending (intuitive leaps) p. 190
- Pretending to be a translator p. 190
- Pretending to be a source reader and target author p. 192
- Pretending to belong to a language-use community p. 193
- Learning to be a translator (pattern-building) p. 199
- Activist translation studies (rules and theories) p. 204
- Ethnography (communities of practice: rules and theories) p. 205
- 10 The impact on translation of culture(s) p. 209
- Cultural knowledge p. 210
- Self-projection into the foreign (intuitive leaps) p. 214
- Immersion in cultures (pattern-building) p. 217
- 7 Intercultural awareness (rules and theories) p. 219
- 11 When habit fails p. 231
- The importance of analysis p. 233
- The reticular activation system: alarm bells p. 236
- Checking the rules (rules and theories) p. 240
- Checking synonyms, alternatives (pattern-building) p. 246
- Picking the rendition that feels right (intuitive leaps) p. 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780429276606
- 0429276605
- Publisher Number:
- 99987486085
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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