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Author:   Gabriele Tola
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   4
Weight:   0.851kg
ISBN:  

9789004442207

ISBN 10:   9004442200
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   19 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum  1 Introduction  2 John Fryer: Between Translation and Scientific Divulgation  3 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: An Authoritative Work  4 Conclusion 2 Planning, Publication, and Setbacks: The Translator’s Vade-mecum  1 Introduction  2 Various Dating Problems  3 Translator’s Vade-mecum and Chinese and English Technical Vocabularies  4 Planning and Birth of The Translator’s Vade-mecum  5 Conclusion 3 Fryer’s Theories on Translation into Chinese  1 Introduction  2 Religious Views and Technical Nomenclature: Discrepancies and Responsibilities  3 Between “The Descriptive” and “The Phonetic” Methods  4 Advice of the Translator: Fryer’s Suggestions  5 Conclusion 4 Published Glossaries  1 Introduction  2 Vocabulary of Mineralogical Terms  3 Vocabulary of Names of Chemical Substances  4 Vocabulary of Names of Materia Medica  5 Vocabulary of Terms Relating to the Steam Engine  6 Vocabulary of Proper Names  7 Conclusion 5 Unpublished Glossaries  1 Introduction  2 “Vocabulary of Terms in Naval Architecture”  3 “List of Botanical Terms”  4 Case Study—Sources of the “List of Botanical Terms”: An Analysis  5 “Vocabulary of Geological Terms”  6 “Botanical Terms from William’s Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language”  7 “List of Geographical Names”  8 “Syllabary for the Transfer of Foreign Names into Chinese”  9 “Vocabulary of Proper Names”  10 Conclusion 6 Lexicological Features and Translation Choices: Conveying New Concepts with Old Terms and Lexical Innovations  1 Introduction  2 Phonemic Loans  3 Hybrids  4 Calques  5 Descriptive Labelling  6 Multiple Translations  7 Using Existing Nomenclature  8 Neologisms: Dating Back through Etymological Dictionaries  9 Neologisms: Dating Back through Databases  10 Beyond Lexical Innovations  11 Conclusion 7 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: Role, Diffusion, and Influence on Later Texts  1 Introduction  2 Encyclopaedias, Collectanea, and Periodicals  3 Dictionaries, Vocabularies, and Glossaries  4 Yan Huiqing’s Ying-Hua da cidian  5 Other Works  6 Conclusion 8 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: Later Aftermath  1 Introduction  2 Chemistry: Texts by the Guoli Bianyiguan and Other Committees  3 Beyond Chemistry: Other Branches of Science  4 Lexicological Legacy: Acknowledgement and Appraisal Conclusions Appendix: Synoptic Tables and Reproductions—Contents of the TVM Bibliography Index

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Gabriele Tola, Ph.D. (2016), formerly JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kansai University, is a research associate at Sapienza University of Rome. He has published articles on Chinese lexicography and missionary linguistics in international journals, such as Monumenta Serica.

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