Intercultural Competence for Translators

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Tomozeiu is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster! UK! specializing in communication and culture. In addition to his academic work! he is an intercultural coach and trainer. Kaisa Koskinen is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Tampere! Finland. A specialist on translation sociology! her research interests include translating in and for institutions! the ethics of translation! retranslation! user-centered translation! and the future of the translation profession. Adele D'Arcangelo is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna! Italy. Her research is focused on translation training (especially translation and revision techniques) and on literary and theatre translation! with specific attention to sociological aspects and publishing policies. Zusammenfassung The book provides perspective on what intercultural competence for translators is and how it can be developed. It analyses both the main theoretical drivers in defining intercultural competence for translators, and provides real-life examples of how it can be developed. It was published as a special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Teaching intercultural competence in translator training 1. Operationalising intercultural competence for translation pedagogy 2. The first step to incorporate intercultural competence into a given translation curriculum: a micro-level survey of students’ learning needs 3. A process-oriented approach for documenting and gauging intercultural competence in translation 4. Procedures for assessing the acquisition of cultural competence in translator training 5. Investigating trainee translators’ contrastive pragmalinguistic competence: a corpus-based analysis of interclausal linkage in learner translations

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• Authors: Daniel (University of Westminster Tomozeiu, Daniel Koskinen Tomozeiu
• Assisted by: Adele D'Arcangelo (Editor), Kaisa Koskinen (Editor), Koskinen Kaisa (Editor), Daniel Tomozeiu (Editor), Tomozeiu Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138563391
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56339-1
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Translation and interpretation