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Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Juliane House

    1. Hamburg University, Germany and Hellenic American University, Greece

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics (PADLL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Juliane House
    Pages 1-14

  3. Translation and Equivalence

    • Monika Krein-Kühle
    Pages 15-35

  4. Discourse and Translation — A Social Perspective

    • Ian Mason
    Pages 36-55

  5. Chinese Discourse on Translation as Intercultural Communication: The Story of jihe (幾何)

    • Martha P. Y. Cheung
    Pages 56-72

  6. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Translation: The Case of Museum Texts as Interlingual Representation

    • Marie-Noëlle Guillot
    Pages 73-95

  7. Translations as a Locus of Language Contact

    • Svenja Kranich
    Pages 96-115

  8. Reorienting Translation Studies: Cognitive Approaches and the Centrality of the Translator

    • Sandra L. Halverson
    Pages 116-139

  9. Literary Translation

    • Cees Koster
    Pages 140-157

  10. Translation as Re-narration

    • Mona Baker
    Pages 158-177

  11. Corpora in Translation

    • Federico Zanettin
    Pages 178-199

  12. Translation and New(s) Media: Participatory Subtitling Practices in Networked Mediascapes

    • Luis Pérez-González
    Pages 200-221

  13. The Role of Translation in Language Learning and Teaching

    • H. G. Widdowson
    Pages 222-240

  14. Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present

    • Juliane House
    Pages 241-264

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-276
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The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg University, Germany and Hellenic American University, Greece

    Juliane House

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Mona Baker, University of Manchester, UK Martha Cheung, Baptist University, Hong Kong Marie-Noelle Guillot, University of East Anglia, UK Sandra Halverson, Norges Handelshoyskole, Norway Cees Koster, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Svenja Kranich, Universität Mainz, Germany Monika Krein-Kühle, Fachhochschule Köln, Germany Ian Mason, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Luis Pérez-González, University of Manchester, UK Henry Widdowson, Universität Wien, Austria Federico Zanettin, Universita Di Perugia, Italy

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