MUNDAY, Jeremy, Introducing Translation Studies. Theories and Applications, New York / London, Routledge, 2008, 256 p.
ISBN 978-0-415-39693-6
RÉSUMÉ
This introductory textbook provides an accessible overview of the key contributions to translation theory.
Mundayexplores each theory chapter-by-chapter and tests the differentapproaches by applying them to texts. The texts discussed are takenfrom a broad range of languages – English, French, German, Spanish,Italian, Punjabi, Portuguese and English translations are provided. Awide variety of text types is analyzed, including a tourist brochure, achildren's cookery book, a Harry Potter novel, the Bible, literaryreviews and translators' prefaces, film translation, a technical textand a European Parliament speech. Each chapter includes the followingfeatures:
- a table introducing key concepts
- an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories
- illustrative texts with translations
- a chapter summary
- discussion points and exercises.
Includinga general introduction, an extensive bibliography, and websites forfurther information, this is a practical, user-friendly textbook thatgives a balanced and comprehensive insight into translation studies.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Introduction
1. The Discipline or Interdiscipline of TranslationStudies
2. Translation Theory Before the Twentieth Century
3.Equivalence and Equivalent Effect
4. Studying the Translation Process:Translation Shifts, Contrastive Linguistics, and Cognitive Theories
5.Functional Theories of Translation
6. Discourse and Register AnalysisApproaches
7. Systems Theories
8. Translation as Rewriting
9.Translation and Globalization
10. Translating the Foreign: The(in)Visibility of Translation
11. Philosophical Theories of Translation
12. Audiovisual Translation Studies.
Conclusion: The Future of theDiscipline.
Appendix: Web Links. Bibliography. Index
BIOGRAPHIE
Jeremy Munday is Lecturer in Spanish Studies at the University ofSurrey and is a freelance translator, lexicographer and materialswriter. He has a Doctorate in Translation Studies and his publicationsinclude among others, Translation: An Advanced Resourcebook (Routledge 2004), a wide range of papers in the field, and translations of Latin American fiction.