Paragraphs on Translation: 1 (Topics in Translation) - Softcover

Newmark, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853591912 ISBN 13: 9781853591914

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1993

Synopsis

Peter Newmark's fourth book on translation, a collection of his articles in The Linguist, is addressed to a wide readership. He discusses the force of translation in public life, instancing health and social services, art galleries, operas, light magazines and even gives some hints on the translation of erotica. The major part of these paragraphs is concerned with straight translation topics such as economics texts and short stories, as well as procedures for translating quotations, symbols, phrasal verbs and nouns, synonymous sound effects in language, repetition and keywords. The subordination of translation not just to source or target language but to logic, the facts, ideas of right and wrong, as well as the translator's ideology, is also discussed. However controversial, the author always provides an abundance of examples for the reader to test his ideas.

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of the author's articles as published in "The Linguist", this book deals with translation on many levels: its uses in advertising, labelling, public notices; its roles in introducing foreign art, literature and music; its values in economic and technical texts; its effectiveness as a critical weapon in showing up the meretricious and the fraudulent; and principally, its various techniques and procedures at every segment of a text from the comma to the paragraph. The author's other publications include "A Textbook of Translation", and "About Translation", among other papers and articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853591912
• ISBN 13: 9781853591914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192