Translation: Theory and Practice in Dialogue

This exciting new book explores the present relevance of translation theory to practice. A range of perspectives provides both current theoretical insights into the relevance of theory to translation and also offers first-hand experiences of applying appropriate strategies and methods to the practice and description of translation. The individual chapters in the book explore theoretical pronouncements and practical observations grouped in topics that include theory and creativity, translation and its relation with linguistics, gender issues and more. The book features four parts: it firstly deals with how theories from both within translation studies and from other disciplines can contribute to our understanding of the practice of translation; secondly, how theory can be reconceptualized from examining translation in practice; thirdly reconceptualizing practice from theory; and finally Eastern European and Asian perspectives of how translation theory and practice inform one another. The chapters all show examples from theoretical and practical as well as pedagogical issues ensuring appeal for a wide readership.

Series Editor's Preface Jeremy Munday \ Notes on Contributors \ Preface, Jean Boase-Beier\ Acknowledgements \ Introduction, Antoinette Fawcett and Karla L. Guadarrama Garcia \ Part I: Knowing why we do what we do \ 1. Who needs theory? Jean Boase-Beier\ 2. Horace's Hyperbaton: Wrapping one's head around ‘Word Warps' and Patching up a Gaping Language Gap, Elizabeth Thornton \ 3. Theory and Practice of Feminist Translation in the 21st Century, Lina Glede \4. An Optimality Approach to the Translation of Poetry, Christine Calfoglou \Part II: New theoretical horizons for new ways of doing literary translation \ 5. Re-theorising the literary in literary translation, Clive Scott \ 6. In the Furrows of Translation, Agnieszka Pantuchowicz \ Part III: Behind the TT: Translational priorities and asymmetrical relationships of power \ 7. The Taming of the Eastern European Beast? A case study of a translation of a Polish novel into English, Paulina Gasior \ 8. Network & Cooperation in Translating Taiwanese into English: With Reference to the Translation of Modern Taiwanese Literature, Szu-Wen Cindy Kung \ 9. Rendering Female Speech as a Male/Female Translator: Constructed Femininity in the Japanese Translations of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary, Hiroko Furukawa \ Part IV: Back to basics \ 10. The nature, place and role of a philosophy of translation in translation studies, Kirsten Malmkjær\ Index