Translating Texts

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An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation

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Translating Texts offers a clear, step-by-step guide to textual analysis tailored for beginning translators and translation students. It features authentic, research-based materials from a range of text types—such as business letters, recipes, and museum guides—in six languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. This book emphasises text awareness, a crucial skill for professional translation, and includes theoretical discussions, sample self-assessment rubrics, and guidance for creating additional corpora.
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This textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in modern languages and translation studies, suitable for both language-neutral and language-specific classroom environments.

Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step by step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Ideal for both language neutral and language-specific classroom settings, this is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level programs in modern languages and translation.

Description

Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step-by-step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Covering a variety of text types, including business letters, recipes, and museum guides in six languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish), this book presents authentic, research-based materials to support translation among any of these languages.

Translating Texts will provide beginning translators with greater text awareness, a critical skill for professional translators. Including discussions of the key theoretical texts underlying this text-centred approach to translation and sample rubrics for (self) assessment, this coursebook also provides easy instructions for creating additional corpora for other text types and in other languages.

Ideal for both language-neutral and language-specific classroom settings, this is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate-level programs in modern languages and translation.

Additional resources are available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://routledgetranslationstudiesportal.com

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415788090

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 130 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Brian Baer
Edited by Christopher Mellinger

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 276

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at National Research University School of Higher Economics in Moscow, Russia. He is co-editor of Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy, author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature, and founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Christopher D. Mellinger is Assistant Professor of Spanish Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is co-author of Quantitative Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies (Routledge) and the managing editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.