Introducing Translation

Connecting practice, theory, and industry, this innovative introduction to translation adopts a can-do approach in the context of advances in research and technology. It addresses undergraduate and graduate students of translation and related disciplines, covering the field in depth, with forty illustrative exercises designed to challenge.

List of contents

1. What We Can Know About Translation and How We Can Come to Know it; 2. What Translation is For; 3. Where Translation Happens; 4. How Translation Happens; 5. How to do Translating; 6. Returning to the Theory of Translation.

About the author

Kirsten Malmkjær is Emeritus Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leicester. She has pursued her interest in translation throughout her academic career, developing the approach known as Translational Stylistics and designing translation programmes at several UK universities. She has published widely in the field, including Translation and Creativity (2020) and The Cambridge Handbook of Translation (2022). She edits the Cambridge short works series, Elements in Translation and Interpreting.

Summary

Connecting practice, theory, and industry, this innovative introduction to translation adopts a can-do approach in the context of advances in research and technology. It addresses undergraduate and graduate students of translation and related disciplines, covering the field in depth, with forty illustrative exercises designed to challenge.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Malmkjaer, Kirsten (University of Leicester) Malmkjr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781108713986
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71398-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation and interpretation, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework