Translation An advanced resource book for students

Translation, SecondEdition introduces the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, and has been revised and updated to feature: a study of translation through the lens of key topics in linguistics such as semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism; a wide range of examples from other languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic, with English back-translations to assist comprehension; material from a variety of sources, genres and text-types, such as advertisements, religious texts, reports for international organizations, videogames, literary and technical texts; influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and Ernst-August Gutt, and contains new readings from Mona Baker, Michael Cronin, Kim Grego, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Kevin Gary Smith, Harald Martin Olk, Carmen Mangiron and Minako O’Hagan. Additional resources for the book can be found at www.routledge.com/9780415536141. Written by two experienced teachers, translators and researchers, Translation remains an essential resource for students and researchers of translation studies and Applied Linguistics.

Acknowledgements How to use this book SECTION A INTRODUCTION Unit 1 What is translation? Unit 2 Translation strategies Unit 3 The unit of translation Unit 4 Translation shifts Unit 5 The analysis of meaning Unit 6 Dynamic equivalence and the receptor of the message Unit 7 Textual pragmatics and equivalence Unit 8 Translation and relevance Unit 9 Text type in translation Unit 10 Text register in translation Unit 11 Text, genre and discourse shifts in translation Unit 12 Agents of power in translation Unit 13 Ideology and translation Unit 14 Translation in the digital era SECTION B EXTENSION Unit 1 What is translation? Unit 2 Translation strategies Unit 3 The unit of translation Unit 4 Translation shifts Unit 5 The analysis of meaning Unit 6 Dynamic equivalence and the receptor of the message Unit 7 Textual pragmatics and equivalence Unit 8 Translation and relevance Unit 9 Text type in translation Unit 10 Text register in translation Unit 11 Text, genre and discourse shifts in translation Unit 12 Agents of power in translation Unit 13 Ideology and translation Unit 14 Translation in the digital era SECTION C EXPLORATION Unit 1 What is translation? Unit 2 Translation strategies Unit 3 The unit of translation Unit 4 Translation shifts Unit 5 The analysis of meaning Unit 6 Dynamic equivalence and the receptor of the message Unit 7 Textual pragmatics and equivalence Unit 8 Translation and relevance Unit 9 Text type in translation Unit 10 Text register in translation Unit 11 Text, genre and discourse shifts in translation Unit 12 Agents of power in translation Unit 13 Ideology and translation Unit 14 Translation in the digital era Developing words and cultures – some concluding remarks Glossary Bibliography Index

Basil Hatim is a theorist in English/Arabic translation and a translator/interpreter. He has worked and lectured at universities worldwide and has published extensively on applied linguistics, text linguistics translation/interpreting and TESOL. He has authored or co-authored several books. He has served on the editorial boards of several major journals and has published some 50 papers in a diverse range of international refereed journals. Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His specialisms are: linguistic translation theories, discourse analysis, ideology and translation, and Latin American literature in translation. He is author of Introducing Translation Studies (Routledge, 4th edition, 2016) and Evaluation in Translatio (Routledge, 2012).