1st Edition

Translation and Translating Theory and Practice

By Roger T. Bell Copyright 1992
    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    80 Pages
    by Routledge

    Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of intellectual activity in human sciences and fail to take its rightful place as a major field in applied Linguistics.

    Acknowledgements
    General Editor's Preface
    Introduction


    PART 1: MODEL
    1 Perspectives on translation
    2 Translating;modelling the process

    PART 2: MEANING
    3 Word- and sentence-meaning
    4 Logic, grammar and rhetoric
    5 Text and discourse

    PART 3: MEMORY
    6 Text processing
    7 Information, knowledge and memory
    8 Envoi

    Appendix
    Bibliography
    Index.


    Biography

    Roger T. Bell