Linguistics and the Language of Translation

Informationen zum Autor Kirsten Malmkjaer Klappentext The book uses explanation! discussion and practice to make explicit the forms of knowledge of language and of translation that makes translators successful. Chapters on the development of translation studies in the West and on contemporary approaches to translation! provide the contexts within which the processes and products of translating are studied. 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. Zusammenfassung This book is for students of translation! languages and linguistics who would like to enhance their understanding of the relationships between these areas of study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Malmkjaer
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2005
• EAN: 9780748620562
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-2056-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics; Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies