Linguistics and the Language of Translation

Author:   Kirsten Malmkjaer
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9780748620562


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 April 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Linguistics and the Language of Translation


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A practical guide to translation for language students This book is for students of translation, languages and linguistics who would like to gain a clearer understanding of the relationships between these subjects. It uses explanation, discussion and practice to show how knowledge of language and of translation can help a translator work more effectively. Chapters on the development of translation studies in the west and on contemporary approaches to translation provide the disciplinary context for study of translation products and processes, while the book's flexible and forward-looking approach to meaning and translation place the more applied chapters in their theoretical and academic context. Malmkjaer presents meaning as a temporary relationship between participants in language events, and translation as a creative activity that contributes to these events. In doing so, she demonstrates how mutually rewarding and enriching interaction between language study, linguistics and translation studies can be. Five practical chapters cover sounds and rhythms, lexis, collocation and semantic prosody, texture, register, cohesion, coherence, implicature, speech and text acts, text and genre analysis, clausal thematicity and transitivity and the expression through language choices of ideological positions.

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Author:   Kirsten Malmkjaer
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780748620562


ISBN 10:   0748620567
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 April 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. From Writings on Translation to Translation Studies; 2. Mapping and Approaching Translation Studies; 3. Translation and Language; 4. Sounds and Rhythms in Translation; 5. Words and Meanings in Translation; 6. Words in Company; 7. From Words to Texts; 8. Actions and Implications; 9. Projects in Translation.

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A useful addition to the field. Times Higher Education Supplement This is an excellent treatment of the interplay between two disciplines...The book is written in a lively style, marrying a vivid discussion of key concepts and debates in both linguistics and translation studies with a novel slant, refreshing examples and an appropriate blend of theory and its application. Language and Intercultural Communication A highly recommended book which can be used at both undergraduate and graduate levels. -- Maria Lucia Vasconcellos & Lincoln P. Fernandes Translator, The A useful addition to the field. This is an excellent treatment of the interplay between two disciplines...The book is written in a lively style, marrying a vivid discussion of key concepts and debates in both linguistics and translation studies with a novel slant, refreshing examples and an appropriate blend of theory and its application. A highly recommended book which can be used at both undergraduate and graduate levels.


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Kirsten Malmkjaer is Professor of Translation Studies and Head of the Centre for Research in Translation at Middlesex University.

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