Text Typology and Translation

Editor

Anna Trosborg | The Aarhus School of Business

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ISBN 9789027216298 (Eur) | EUR 120.00

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This book breaks new ground in translation theory and practice. The central question is: In what ways are translations affected by text types? The two main areas of investigation are: A. What are the advantages of focusing on text types when trying to understand the process of translation? How do translators tackle different text types in their daily practice? B. To what extent and in what areas are text types identical across languages and cultures? What similarities and dissimilarities can be observed in text types of original and translated texts?

Part I deals with methodological aspects and offers a typology of translations both as product and as process. Part II is devoted to domain-specific texts in a cross-cultural perspective, while Part III is concerned with terminology and lexicon as well as the constraints of mode and medium involving dubbing and subtitling as translation methods. Sonnets, sagas, fairy tales, novels and feature films, sermons, political speeches, international treaties, instruction leaflets, business letters, academic lectures, academic articles, medical research articles, technical brochures and legal documents are but some of the texts under investigation.

In sum, this volume provides a theoretical overview of major problems and possibilities as well as investigations into a variety of text types with practical suggestions that deserve to be weighted by anyone considering the relation between text typology and translation. The volume is indispensable for the translator in his/her efforts to become a “competent text-aware professional”.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 26] 1997. xvi, 345 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.26

Table of Contents

Introduction | p. vii

Part I: Methodology

Text typology: register, genre and text type

Anna Trosborg | p. 3

Text types and translation

Juan C. Sager | p. 25

A functional typology of translation

Christiane Nord | p. 43

Text-type conventions and translating: Some methodological issues

Paul Kussmaul | p. 67

Approaches to Literary Genres

Text types and power relations

Susan Bassnett | p. 87

Descriptions and criticism: Some approaches to the translations of Hans Christian Andersen

Viggo Hjørnager | p. 99

Part II: Domain- and Benre-specific texts

Strategies of translating political texts

Christina Schäffner | p. 119

Translating Hybrid Political texts

Anna Trosborg | p. 145

Translation of medical research articles

Morten Pilegaard | p. 159

Translation of technical brochures

Jens Hare Hansen | p. 185

Translating legal Genres

Vijay Bhatia | p. 203

Part III: Terminology and lexicon

Synonymy and equivalence in special-language texts

Margaret Rogers | p. 217

Reference corpora and lexicons for translators and translation studies

Eugenio Picchi and Carol Peters | p. 247

Texts Types and media constraints

Written to be spoken: The audio-medial text in translation

Mary Snell-Hornby | p. 277

Dubbing and the Dubbed text — style and cohesion

Thomas Herbst | p. 291

Quality revisited: The rendering of English idioms in danish television subtitles vs. printed translations

Henrik Gottlieb | p. 309

Index | p. 339

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