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Translating texts : an introductory coursebook on translation and text formation / edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Taylor and Francis, 2020Description: xi, 275 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415788083
  • 9780415788090
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.02 21 B.B. T 2020
LOC classification:
  • P306.5 .T724 2020
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translating Texts -- Why Now? -- Toward a Research-based Translation Pedagogy -- What is a Text? -- How Texts are Made -- Theory in the Translation Classroom -- How to Use This Textbook -- Text Types: Samples with Text Analysis: Recipes ; Instruction Manuals ; Museum Guides ; Patient Education Materials ; News Reports ; Business Letters -- Appendix A: Sample Grading Rubric -- Appendix B: How to Build a Corpus -- Contributor Bios -- References -- Index.
Summary: "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"--
List(s) this item appears in: Alsun 2020-2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Translating Texts -- Why Now? -- Toward a Research-based Translation Pedagogy -- What is a Text? -- How Texts are Made -- Theory in the Translation Classroom -- How to Use This Textbook -- Text Types: Samples with Text Analysis: Recipes ; Instruction Manuals ; Museum Guides ; Patient Education Materials ; News Reports ; Business Letters -- Appendix A: Sample Grading Rubric -- Appendix B: How to Build a Corpus -- Contributor Bios -- References -- Index.

"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"--

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