Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications

by Jeremy Munday, Sara Ramos Pinto, Jacob Blakesley

Overview

Introducing Translation Studies is an introductory textbook providing an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory. A very wide variety of text types is analyzed, including a tourist brochure, a children's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literary reviews, a technical text, and a football report.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367370510
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2022
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Munday is Emeritus Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, and is an experienced translator. His book Introducing Translation Studies was first published in 2001 and has been translated into some fifteen languages. He is also the author of Style and Ideology in Translation (Routledge 2008) and Evaluation in Translation (Routledge 2012) 

 

Sara Ramos Pinto is an Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on audiovisual translation and multimodality, and her recent publications include Translation and Multimodality (2020).

 

Jacob Blakesley is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of A Sociological Approach to Poetry Translation: Modern European Poet-Translators (Routledge, 2018). He is co-series editor (with Duncan Large) of the Routledge Studies in Literary Translation series and co-series editor (with Matthew Treherne) of the Leeds Studies on Dante series.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Main issues of translation studies

Translation theory before the twentieth century

Equivalence and equivalent effect

The translation shift approach

Functional theories of translation

Discourse and register analysis approaches

Systems theories

Varieties of cultural studies

Translating the foreign: the (in)visibility of translation

Philosophical theories of translation

Translation studies as an interdiscipline

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From the Publisher

'The third edition is written in exceptionally clear and user-friendly style with not only a new chapter dedicated to Research and Commentary Project but also a lucid account of classic topics such as faithfulness and equivalence. To reflect the nature of the link between translation theories and practice, Jeremy Munday has added case studies in each chapter to offer practical examples of how theories can be applied in the real world. The discussion and research points at the end of each topic will be welcomed by students, teachers and researchers alike... Readers who may have no previous knowledge of translation studies may also find the book interesting and illuminating.' – Susan Xu Yun, SIM University, Singapore