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Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
[Benjamins Translation Library 17] 1997
► pp. v–x

Table of contents

Prefacexi

Acknowledgmentsxii

Introduction1

Fernando Poyatos

Part 1. Discourse and nonverbal communication

Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation17

Fernando Poyatos

Discourse features in non-verbal communication: Implications for the translator49

Basil Hatim

Part 2. Cultures in translation

The identification of gestural images in Chinese literary expressions69

Yau Shun-chiu

Some aspects of Japanese cultural ethos embedded in nonverbal communicative behaviour83

Rie Hasada

Part 3. Narrative literature

Alice abroad: dealing with descriptions and transcriptions of paralanguage in literary translation107

Christiane Nord

The translation of gestures in the English and German versions of Manzoni’s I Promesse Sposi131

Pierangela Diadori

Punctuation in Hans Christian Andersen’s stories and in their translations into English151

Kirsten Malmkjær

Matching verbal and nonverbal communication in a holocaust memoir and its translation163

Yishai Tobin

Part 4. Theater

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”: The non-verbal language of drama187

Mary Snell-Hornby

Verbal and non-verbal constituents in theatrical texts and implications for translators203

Said Shiyab

Part 5. Poetry

“Whose morsel of lips will you bite?”: Some reflections on the role of prosody and genre as non-verbal elements in the translation of poetry217

Sean Golden

Part 6. Interpretation

the reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation249

Fernando Poyatos

Kinesics and the simultaneous interpreter: the advantages of listening with one’s eyes and speaking with one’s body283

Sergio Viaggio

From babel to Brussels: Conference interpreting and the art of the impossible295

Edna Weale

Part 7. the audiovisual channels for translation- film and television dubbing

Translating non-verbal information in dubbing315

Frederic Chaume

Dubbing and the nonverbal dimension of translation327

Patrick Zabalbeascoa

List of contributors343

Name index349

Subject index357

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