Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies

by Mira Kim (Editor), Jeremy Munday (Editor), Kathryn Batchelor (Editor), Zhenhua Wang (Editor), Pin Wang (Editor)

Overview

The field of translation studies has grown rapidly over recent decades, with critical questions being investigated across the globe. Drawing together this scattered research, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies consolidates important propositions by drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

Using the SFL dimensions of stratification, rank, axis and delicacy to show how languages are more similar or more different, this book provides a state-of-the-art critical assessment of the interaction between SFL and translation studies. Highlighting the major contribution SFL can make in developing translation theories, a team of world-leading experts investigate how intricate and wide-ranging translation questions, such as re-instantiation and multimodality, can be most efficiently explored through a detailed meaning- and function-oriented linguistic theory. Examining the theoretical concepts and practical applications of SFL in the translation of a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies provides a stimulus for new work spanning the two fields and suggests new directions for future research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350091863
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/20/2021
Series:	Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Mira Kim is Associate Professor in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.

Jeremy Munday is Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Jeremy Munday is Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Kathryn Batchelor is Professor of Translation Studies at University College London (UCL), UK. Her research interests encompass translation theory, translation history, philosophies of translation, and translation in or involving Africa. She is the author of Decolonizing Translation (2009) and Translation and Paratexts (2018), and has co-edited six volumes of essays, including Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts (2013), co-edited with Claire Bisdorff; Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages (2017), co-edited with Sue-Ann Harding; and Translation, Trouvailles (2023), co-edited with Chantal Wright. For a full list of publications, see https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/71119-kathryn-batchelor/publications

Zhenhua Wang is Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Pin Wang is Lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Table of Contents

1. Functional language typology: SFL perspectives, J. R. Martin (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Beatriz Quiroz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
2. Textual instantiation, the notion of “readings of texts“ as translation agency, Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
3. Register and translation Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
4. Systemic Functional Linguistics as a framework for the analysis of translator/interpreter intervention, Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds, UK)
5. Corpus-based translation studies and systemic functional linguistics, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
6. A descriptive study on Chinese-English translation choices for logical meanings, Xueying Li (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) and Mira Kim (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
7. Modality, point of view and translation: A systemic functional analysis of the Arabic translations of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, Komail AL Herz (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)
8. SFL at the heart of translator training: An experimental case study within Applied Translation Studies, Sami J. Althumali (Taif University, Saudi Arabia)
9. A translated volume and its many covers: A social-semiotic, diachronic study of translated book covers, Long Li (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
10. Shifting the gaze to the paradigm: Translation as tool for multilingual studies, Giacomo Figueredo (The Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil)
Index

Editorial Reviews

[B]ringing together world-leading experts, this exciting new book provides us with a renewed understanding of the dynamic interaction between translation studies and SFL, introducing the most up-to-date developments in the area with both theoretical and practical implications. This book should be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students alike who are keen on the social and functional aspects of language use in our societies.” —Journal of Pragmatics

“This excellent volume presents new theoretical and empirical studies by well-known scholars united in their attempt to combine insights from systemic functional linguistics and translation- thus continuing a long and fruitful line of interaction between these two fields of inquiry.” —Juliane House, Professor Emerita, Hamburg University, Germany

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