Translation, Second Edition introduces the theory and practice of
translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, and has
been revised and updated to feature:
- a study of translation through the lens of key topics in linguistics
such as semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive
linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism;
- a wide range of examples from other languages, including French,
Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic, with English
back-translations to assist comprehension;
- material from a variety of sources, genres and text-types, such as
advertisements, religious texts, reports for international
organizations, videogames, literary and technical texts;
- influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including
Jean-Paul Vinay and Jean Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and
Ernst-August Gutt, and contains new readings from Mona Baker, Michael
Cronin, Kim Grego, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Kevin Gary Smith, Harald
Martin Olk, Carmen Mangiron and Minako O'Hagan.
Additional resources for the book can be found at
www.routledge.com/9780415536141.
Written by two experienced teachers, translators and researchers,
Translation remains an essential resource for students and researchers
of translation studies and Applied Linguistics.