Thinking Chinese Translation

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ISBN: 9780203849316 | 0203849310
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Copyright: 6/10/2010

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Thinking Chinese Translation is a practical and comprehensive course for advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of Chinese. It focuses on improving translation quality by showing in detail the roles of clarity, method and awareness of purpose in translation.The text aims to encourage students to think around and behind any text they translate, to be aware of the discourse of the text against the background of related texts and related discourses in the source and target language. The focus is not only on the vocabulary and linguistic structures needed for a text, but also the way things work at a manual or visual level.Taking the text as the stimulus which triggers the translator's schema, Pellatt looks at ways of building schemata starting from the simplest texts, to more complex texts, and covering a range of subject matter, from cultural issues, legal contracts to financial markets.

Introduction
History, theory and practice of Chinese translation
The rationale and structure of Thinking Chinese Translation
Translation as a process Formal schema: decoding the marks on the page Content schema: knowledge and experience Implication and Inference The benefits of collaborative thinking Reflective learning
Formal Schema: the framework: titles, sentences, punctuation and paragraphs eadings and titles: signposting the text Sentences: grammatical structures Sentences: discoursal structures Punctuation: loaded with meaning Paragraphs: fleshing out the structure Content schema: knowledge, preparation and collaboration
Text structure and names
Background knowledge of China
Growing the schema from small beginnings translating formulaic texts Content, context and register in the formulaic text
Certificates texts without sentences dictionaries and glossaries
Chinese restaurant menu
Translating Accounts
Translating technical and scientific texts Technical translation: What is it? Who does it? Formal schema in technical and scientific translation Content schema: understanding the processes
Technical exercises
Medical translation: persuading, reporting, and diagnosing in the Western tradition Public health information leaflets
Persuading the public: health leaflets Translating medical reports
Patient's notes
Translating Traditional Chinese Medicine The underlying principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine The language of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Treatment: acupuncture and smoking Practical
Textbook description of cancers
Translating for legal purposes Variations in legal systems and language the authority of legal translation and the responsibility of the translator legal texts as speech acts Sentence structures Verb forms Terminology Logical relations Culture and ideology in legal translation Domestic law translated for foreign visitors International law: UN drafting
Analyzing bilingual laws
Translating domestic law on religion miscellaneous legal documents
Translator's statement
Report of legal proceedings
Witness statement 8 Translating the business world: trust and obligation The world of business mOU, MOA and Contract Tenses Idiomatic usage Complex sentences Distinguishing the Parties
Translating a Memorandum of Agreement: Proofreading and Forensics
Translating a contract
Translating the nation Addressing the nation Translating ideology and power China's special brand of power The narrative of China's official discourse Commissioning the translation Addressing the people: the group, the individual and deixis in discourse choice of lexis Metaphor and epithet Numbers in Chinese official discourse China addressing the world Formality and courtesy Friends and brothers Inclusiveness All things positive All things great

Addressing the world
Addressing a developing nation
Author-translator collaboration: a case study of reportage WORKING TOGETHER: Interview with Xinran and Nicky Harman
Paratextual analysis: a case study of autobiographical writing re-adjusting the formal schema for the foreign reader: zhao Ziyang's diaries
Transforming paratextual features for the target audience Translating the culture of the past: Zhang Xianliang's autobiographical writing
Translating culture across time and space
Translating fiction Narration Translating chengyu Dialogue Portraying character through dialogue Expressing inner thoughts through dialogue Relationship and interaction in dialogue Insults Description and depiction Genre within genre
Translating description, emotion and reflection
Translating the frustration of youth
Translation of traditional poetry Formal schema in Chinese poetry Content schema in Chinese poetry Trade-off in language structure Translating the past: allusion and culturally specific items punctuation and space in poems Singular or plural, masculine or feminine? The influence of Ezra Pound
Translating a shi
Translating a ci
Translating with footnotes
Translating twentieth century poetry Translating Guo Moruo: the new poetry of the self Western cultural allusion in Guo Moruo's poetry Personal pronouns and repetition Sky Dog
Discussion of Sky Dog source and target text Translating the surrealism of Yang Lian The Composer's Tower
Discussion of The Composer's Tower source and target text Postscript
Glossary
Appendix
References
Index
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