Behavioral Economics of Translation

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stair-Stepped Anti-Idealism
Chapter 1: Agency
Chapter 2: Difference (the Ethics of)
Chapter 3: Eurocentrism (Attitudes Toward)
Chapter 4: Hermeneutics
Chapter 5: Language
Chapter 6: Norms
Chapter 7: Rhetoric
Chapter 8: World Literature
Chapter 9: Conclusion: So What?
References
Index

About the author

Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and author of two dozen books and five dozen articles and book chapters on translation, literature, rhetoric, semiotics, and culture. His recent Routledge books include Critical Translation Studies (2017), Translationality (2017), Priming Translation (2022), and Translation as a Form (2023).

Summary

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Robinson, Douglas (Chinese University of Hong Kong Robinson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032260785
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226078-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Philosophy of Language, Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Philosophy of Science, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Translation and interpretation