Textual translation and live translation : the total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema / Fernando Poyatos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poyatos, Fernando.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Books and reading.

Theater.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of translation includes theater and cinema (enriching our intellectual-sensorial experience of both 'reading act' and 'viewing act') and offers among other topics: sensorial-intellectual-emotional pre- and post-reading interactions with books; mute or audible 'oralization' of texts; the translator's linguistic and nonverbal-cultural fluency and implicit textual paralanguage and kinesics; translating functions of pictorial illustrations; the blind's text and film perception; the foreign reader's cultural background and circumstances; theater and cinema spectators' total sensory-intellectual experience of plays and films beyond staging or projection; the multiple interrelationships between cinema and theater performers, spectators and their environments, of special interest to all those involved in the theater; and the translator's challenging textual perception of sounds and movements. Over 800 literary "ations, and two virtually exhaustive English inventories of sound- and movement-denoting words with many examples, offer serious students of translation, language or literature a rich reference and drill source.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The reading act, 1: Personal and environmental aspects of our sensory and intellectual interaction with the book

Chapter 2. The reading act, 2: The verbal and nonverbal components in the translated text and the reader's oralization of it

Chapter 3. The reading act, 3: Vision, creation, recreation, and the relationship writer-translator-reader

Chapter 4. From reading act to viewing act: The translating nature of pictorial illustrations and of theater and cinema performances

Chapter 5. The viewing-listening act in the theater and the cinema: Translation and recreation from text to performance

Chapter 6. The sounds of paralanguage in translation: Our voices between cultures in the novel, the theater and the cinema

Chapter 7. The sounds beyond language and paralanguage in the novel, the theater and the cinema: Evocation and live realization

Chapter 8. Translating kinesics: Spatial and temporal perspectives in the novel, the theater and the cinema

Appendix I. An English inventory of sounds-denoting words

Appendix II. An English inventory of movement-denoting words

List of illustrations

Scientific references

Literary references

Films cited

Index of literary authors and works cited

Name index

Subject index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-351) and indexes.

Includes filmography: p. [353]-354.

ISBN:

9786612105630

9781282105638

1282105639

9789027290083

9027290083

OCLC:

273743466